Saturday, October 12, 2002
TWILIGHT OF THE SEMESTER
The Damage Report - Special Edition - Week #18
NOTE: this is a post that is made to give a summary of events that has happened at DLSU-D during the finished week.
I've covered much of this Exams week with the previous three postings, and the feeling this past week is bittersweet light. Like Diet Coke or Fat-Free Chips. It was a conclusion to some kind of beginning. A conclusion... at the same time not quite.
The Finals was throughout this week. I felt like every paper with notes on it and every moment spent thinking was like walking across a thin and wooden bridge. The thin line between passing and failing. It didn't feel good. My High School bad habits of cramming and just drifting versus the challenges of College... it was a risking thing this first Semester and I still did my best to break those habits and start new and strongly positive habits.
The results await next Friday during Class Card Distribution.
And a way to conclude the week was different. Instead of most other people who after their exams would just make themselves a way for home to relax and rest, I spent mine with some JOU1-1 classmates taking charge and helping out the AB Com Seniors with their first annual "Awards Night". I wore all black (just like those times in VPAPU) and worked on Documentation. Not that I was assigned to Documentation, but it's just that I had a feeling that this night thru the lens of my camera and for our Block Site and "Secret Surprise" the webmasters have for JOU1-1 at the opening of next semester... that this event had to be covered. It had to be documented. It just had to.
The night was also the very last night of the First Semester, our first semester of college. The music playing, the scenes with my classmates working as usherettes or as runners, even as intermission performers... it felt like it could all be pieced together to form some kind of "Season Ender" trailer for TV. I had it all in my head. I'll put it down. Take note, I didn't make any of the scenes up... I really pieced together elements of the past week. Warning, it's a fairly short trailer!
[Husky Voiceover: "On the Season One Finale of St. La Salle..."]
[soft piano tune in the background. daytime. at DLSU-D chapel. fade-transitions.]
[george, jerson, and camille quietly studying their ecology notes]
[Husky Voiceover: "...an end to a beginning."]
[George: "Let's just say, our TIME is at 11am instead of 12pm. That way, we'll study better, fake cramming..."
Jerson laughs, Camille smiles.]
[transition. soft piano tunes continue. faces of JOU1-1 classmates show.]
[tina and some classmates on the 2nd floor of LCDC point at a car on the road with a cellphone number printed in black letters on their back window. laughing. transition.]
[transition of classmates taking their Algebra exam.]
[Husky Voiceover: "After all their first tastes of hard work..."]
[transition. eric opens his bag and gives some new issues of Heraldo Filipino to classmates outside the LCDC]
[transition. classmates leaving a kubo at sunset after a meeting.]
[Husky Voiceover: "...it's a time to rest..."]
[fade out]
[change background music from soft piano tunes to "Come On (Get Up!)" by Janet Jackson]
[Husky Voiceover: "...or in some cases, a time to dance..."]
[flash dance scene of JOU1-1 on stage performing in front of the AB Com Seniors]
[flash transition to usherettes running on the side. jhen, cindy, kate, joanna in dresses tending to guests.]
[flash transition of happy AB Com seniors and Mr. Tolentino on the stage announcing winners]
[flash transition of lots of picture takings within the JOU1-1 class outside on the stairs]
[Husky Voiceover: "...the season ender of St. La Salle."]
["St. La Salle" logo shimmers onto the screen as the background of the JOU1-1 performers dancing becomes blurry.]
[fade out music and screen.]
Corny!! But imagine if it was really made, put on television, and beefed up. Call me a TV Junkie.
Anyways the night was fun, tiring for some classmates and I did understand. I felt honored to have been able to see in front of me history in the making with the 1st Annual Awards' Night. Our class should have felt honored as well to be helping out, and to be performing in front of the AB Com seniors... the masters and mistresses of Mass Media here at La Salle.
We had several pictures taken, almost 30. That's a lot for a single event and it left me satisfied, you know, with a left-over smile. "Yes, I covered it!!" I say to myself. My classmates on the other hand still had a long way to get home so I did understand how they had to leave- pronto, after the Awards' night.
JOU1-1 seemed to be the only zealous block section to help out the seniors of AB Com, not to boast! I mean, COM1-3, our brothers and sisters... were assigned to do certain tasks but all they did was perform. They repeated what they did from the Acquaintance Party back last August. Well, at least they showed themselves! I didn't see any 2nd year AB Com, specifically COM2-2 who were assigned to certain tasks as well. Maybe they were there... somewhere.
At least we did our part, we helped!! It was fun in the process. My classmates William, Mendy, Bianca, and Jeremy performed new moves (they didn't revive a previous performance) and a new song for the AB Com seniors. Like in the background music of my imaginary "Season Finale" trailer, they really performed to Janet Jackson's song "Come on, Get Up!"... a great song to put in more beats on a momentous occasion for the AB Com.
After that, I hit the dorms where only five or six remained. I was the only one in F3. Jan went home already. Lance moved out. Lance really moved out. He completely evacuated all his belongings... it was all gone! Jan, who might be moving out of La Salle next Semester, didn't move out his belongings yet. Already, I spoke to Lance, Jan, and Joel on who would move in next Semester if Jan would leave. I voted for Joel already, meaning Joel wouldn't have to always be down the hall leaving his stuff in our room. He'd be here in F3, and we could study together or talk more and go jogging on schedule.
Joseph from F5 and Joel from F11 slept at F3 with me since we were very few in a mysterious, and oftenly felt "haunted" dorm during the nights. Again, the feeling was like the flow of college life left on vacation early leaving behind an empty campus.
I woke up the next morning alone. And then someone's at the door. It's my mom knocking on it.
My first Semester had ended, it was time go home.
Thank you for the instant memories.
Thank you for the great times I'm had and having with new Friends in College.
Thank you for the technology that lets me know my friends of the past are still okay.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
The Damage Report - Special Edition - Week #18
NOTE: this is a post that is made to give a summary of events that has happened at DLSU-D during the finished week.
I've covered much of this Exams week with the previous three postings, and the feeling this past week is bittersweet light. Like Diet Coke or Fat-Free Chips. It was a conclusion to some kind of beginning. A conclusion... at the same time not quite.
The Finals was throughout this week. I felt like every paper with notes on it and every moment spent thinking was like walking across a thin and wooden bridge. The thin line between passing and failing. It didn't feel good. My High School bad habits of cramming and just drifting versus the challenges of College... it was a risking thing this first Semester and I still did my best to break those habits and start new and strongly positive habits.
The results await next Friday during Class Card Distribution.
And a way to conclude the week was different. Instead of most other people who after their exams would just make themselves a way for home to relax and rest, I spent mine with some JOU1-1 classmates taking charge and helping out the AB Com Seniors with their first annual "Awards Night". I wore all black (just like those times in VPAPU) and worked on Documentation. Not that I was assigned to Documentation, but it's just that I had a feeling that this night thru the lens of my camera and for our Block Site and "Secret Surprise" the webmasters have for JOU1-1 at the opening of next semester... that this event had to be covered. It had to be documented. It just had to.
The night was also the very last night of the First Semester, our first semester of college. The music playing, the scenes with my classmates working as usherettes or as runners, even as intermission performers... it felt like it could all be pieced together to form some kind of "Season Ender" trailer for TV. I had it all in my head. I'll put it down. Take note, I didn't make any of the scenes up... I really pieced together elements of the past week. Warning, it's a fairly short trailer!
[Husky Voiceover: "On the Season One Finale of St. La Salle..."]
[soft piano tune in the background. daytime. at DLSU-D chapel. fade-transitions.]
[george, jerson, and camille quietly studying their ecology notes]
[Husky Voiceover: "...an end to a beginning."]
[George: "Let's just say, our TIME is at 11am instead of 12pm. That way, we'll study better, fake cramming..."
Jerson laughs, Camille smiles.]
[transition. soft piano tunes continue. faces of JOU1-1 classmates show.]
[tina and some classmates on the 2nd floor of LCDC point at a car on the road with a cellphone number printed in black letters on their back window. laughing. transition.]
[transition of classmates taking their Algebra exam.]
[Husky Voiceover: "After all their first tastes of hard work..."]
[transition. eric opens his bag and gives some new issues of Heraldo Filipino to classmates outside the LCDC]
[transition. classmates leaving a kubo at sunset after a meeting.]
[Husky Voiceover: "...it's a time to rest..."]
[fade out]
[change background music from soft piano tunes to "Come On (Get Up!)" by Janet Jackson]
[Husky Voiceover: "...or in some cases, a time to dance..."]
[flash dance scene of JOU1-1 on stage performing in front of the AB Com Seniors]
[flash transition to usherettes running on the side. jhen, cindy, kate, joanna in dresses tending to guests.]
[flash transition of happy AB Com seniors and Mr. Tolentino on the stage announcing winners]
[flash transition of lots of picture takings within the JOU1-1 class outside on the stairs]
[Husky Voiceover: "...the season ender of St. La Salle."]
["St. La Salle" logo shimmers onto the screen as the background of the JOU1-1 performers dancing becomes blurry.]
[fade out music and screen.]
Corny!! But imagine if it was really made, put on television, and beefed up. Call me a TV Junkie.
Anyways the night was fun, tiring for some classmates and I did understand. I felt honored to have been able to see in front of me history in the making with the 1st Annual Awards' Night. Our class should have felt honored as well to be helping out, and to be performing in front of the AB Com seniors... the masters and mistresses of Mass Media here at La Salle.
We had several pictures taken, almost 30. That's a lot for a single event and it left me satisfied, you know, with a left-over smile. "Yes, I covered it!!" I say to myself. My classmates on the other hand still had a long way to get home so I did understand how they had to leave- pronto, after the Awards' night.
JOU1-1 seemed to be the only zealous block section to help out the seniors of AB Com, not to boast! I mean, COM1-3, our brothers and sisters... were assigned to do certain tasks but all they did was perform. They repeated what they did from the Acquaintance Party back last August. Well, at least they showed themselves! I didn't see any 2nd year AB Com, specifically COM2-2 who were assigned to certain tasks as well. Maybe they were there... somewhere.
At least we did our part, we helped!! It was fun in the process. My classmates William, Mendy, Bianca, and Jeremy performed new moves (they didn't revive a previous performance) and a new song for the AB Com seniors. Like in the background music of my imaginary "Season Finale" trailer, they really performed to Janet Jackson's song "Come on, Get Up!"... a great song to put in more beats on a momentous occasion for the AB Com.
After that, I hit the dorms where only five or six remained. I was the only one in F3. Jan went home already. Lance moved out. Lance really moved out. He completely evacuated all his belongings... it was all gone! Jan, who might be moving out of La Salle next Semester, didn't move out his belongings yet. Already, I spoke to Lance, Jan, and Joel on who would move in next Semester if Jan would leave. I voted for Joel already, meaning Joel wouldn't have to always be down the hall leaving his stuff in our room. He'd be here in F3, and we could study together or talk more and go jogging on schedule.
Joseph from F5 and Joel from F11 slept at F3 with me since we were very few in a mysterious, and oftenly felt "haunted" dorm during the nights. Again, the feeling was like the flow of college life left on vacation early leaving behind an empty campus.
I woke up the next morning alone. And then someone's at the door. It's my mom knocking on it.
My first Semester had ended, it was time go home.
Thank you for the instant memories.
Thank you for the great times I'm had and having with new Friends in College.
Thank you for the technology that lets me know my friends of the past are still okay.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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