Friday, November 29, 2002
IT'S GETTING COLD IN HERE
The Damage Report - End of Week #22
NOTE: this is a post that is made to give a summary of events that has happened at DLSU-D during the finished week.
One week without posting for so long, and where am I left now? It was a fast week. Andres Bonifacio gives me my weekend back! Thank you, thank you, thank you.
What-a-week! Well, it wasn't exactly as glamourous for Broadjourn like in Week #20 or as exciting as anything last Semester, but it's just a week filled with more of the little things relating to Dorm life.
TWENTY-FIVE POSSIBLE HOURS DOWN THE DRAIN
First of all, I only logged into the Heraldo on Monday and Tuesday. On Tuesday, I don't think I logged out. From Wednesday until today (Friday) I didn't log in. I just didn't get that urge to go there and log in. I was feeling so low about my failure towards the Staffers' Corner. I was given an opportunity to compete with other selected writers to write up the next Staffers' Corner. In the previous broadsheet issues this year, my classmate Eric wrote one "Style or Substance", and then a neighboring AB Comm, Joanne Diaz wrote something about athletes in the exact previous one. Both by the way are First Year. I believe I'm the only first year asked in this round of Staffers' Corner. And I have failed.
I have failed. My first shot "Beautiful Danger" sounded more like an old poetry or a mix between James Bond and Austin Powers. Just bull. I'm not mad at anyone, I'm disappointed at myself! I seemed to have rushed so fast with the News Articles on Week #19 that I've burnt myself and lost the inspiration to write.
On all my news articles, I seemed to have gotten all the facts which is good but the format is all wrong! It's a wreck to the HF. On my Features' article with Kay Mori about the AB Comm, it was okay. It was okay with Kay. Then when it reaches our editor, we have to match our formats to a certain standard. It so happens that standard was already met by my article and even surpassed by Kay's half of the article. I'm not whining here, but things got blurry after that as Kay and I haven't had contact in a long time now (like, the whole week) and the layout is already starting again.
Arrg. And it doesn't stop there. I lend my scores to Joanna, which I recorded from the PRISAA in Week #21. It's in my pocket notebook which happens to carry my notes on the ABDUL IN MANILA episode. Great. The articles are due on December 2, Monday. My notes are probably with Joanna in some other province or city, and I'm caught with this tremendous headache.
To any heraldopeeps that could read this, I'm greatly sorry. I'm not blaming, but I'm frustrating at my errors this week. Fucking moody me again... can't get myself into that office the last three days. Bull.
THIS PAST WEEK
Academics and Dorm Life greatly increased. Well, honestly speaking, more of the latter. Academics sprawled into the fourth week of the Preliminary Term with lectures, lessons, and what-else. While Dorm Life has greatly improved in all aspects. My corner of the room, my relations with all dorm mates, etc.
LAST MONDAY
Another Interview is asked by INTRO
Last Monday was three hours of General Chemistry in the morning followed by a confusing interview-letter-interview-dean-interview-letter in Career Pathing. And in Intensive English, I met the prof for the first time since she's been absent the first two weeks and last week I was pulled by my own will to watch Harry Potter.
My third roomie, Jan, brought in STAR WARS: OUTCASTS II or something like that. It's a really fun game and from my position in the room I could watch everyone who was playing it. And on Charmed, it was a rerun with the Firestarter kid.
LAST TUESDAY
A Birthday before Fashion before Community Service!
After English we proceeded to Ate Angge's house and ate really crispy and tasty chicken! It was great. Classmates were all around. From watching GMA7 in the living room or enjoying CANDY mags in Ate Angge's room, to eating at the dining room. Happy Birthday again Ate Angge!
Other highlights were in Sociology where I invited dorm mates Aldrich and Karl into my class (on-the-spot too) to wear something fashionable so they can help my group out in presenting. It turned out to become a great success and by our 9 month pregnant professor, it was "Spectacular". And in NSTP-CWTSP, we went on-location to Bgy. Bautista for a short re-orientation with our families. I saw Jennieve for the first time, she's the daughter of Ate Rose the family that I'm assigned to.
And of course, on Tuesday night, F3 would be loaded with interested dorm mates who want to watch SMALLVILLE. It's the most popular show on my television set at the dorms. That's when almost all else stops just for that one hour.
LAST WEDNESDAY
I guess i'll die another day!
Last Wednesday was the typical washday. And if I remember, that's the day I started to greatly dislike Biological Science. What was big about Wednesday was my excitement to catch DIE ANOTHER DAY which premiered on that day. I didn't expect it to show that day, so when I found out- I went ALL OUT to invite people and get going to catch the 20th Bond Film.
So right after REED2 I managed to gather Upper, Teenah, and Danielle to join what was supposed to be many of my dorm mates. Instead, I couldn't find JOEL, I don't know where ALDRICH was at, and LANCE was no where to be found. I managed to get at least someone, someONE... his name is Alex from F6 (once again, F1-F11, I'm F3).
Alex is one of three of all the guys at the dorms that I've been distant from. I've been familiar with almost everybody else except Alex. Alex is a ComSci student and is a member of ComSci 1-2. That happens to be the "all star class" as I like to tag because: My high school batchmate Veejay is a member of that class. So are dormers BRIAN from F9, and Alex's room mate ALLEN in F6.
Anyways we headed off to Robinsons IMUS and arrived around 6:10pm. Teenah met with her boyfriend Gaynor while Danielle and Upper formed an instant team as well. Alex and I joked around as the group found itself eating at Jollybee and later taking those sticker picture thingys (i can't believe i forgot the name) in the booth inside AGFA on the first floor.
We entered CINEMA 4 for the 7:15pm showing of DIE ANOTHER DAY. I was so excited by this point that I just kept on joking, talking endlessly to Alex about weird things in the mall and about the movie.
We entered and it was just on time. I mean, we wearn't late. And another thing was, we sat in the center fo the deluxe area, fourth row from the front! The screen was huge. The faces were huge. But it would all be part of the experience of DIE ANOTHER DAY.
***
The movie was just amazing. "It's brilliant to Bond Fans and a thrill to the others who watch it." But to comment on something in the movie was that "Bond has entered the age of Titanic." errr... the Iceburg Tidal Wave scene was now more digital then ever. Meaning, the scene was too good and too exciting- to be true. Other than that, the movie is something I'd grab on DVD in the future.
(and speaking of DVD, Episode II: Attack of the Clones, is now out on tape and DVD I believe. But where is it?)
We arrived in La Salle around 10:15pm, an hour and a half beyond curfew. But Alex and my IDs wearn't taken while the girls' IDs were taken. I don't know how to explain that.
LAST THURSDAY
An Addiction to Zeus and an Absence to Swimming!
My addiction to Alex's (Dorm mate in F6) ZEUS game grew today. It's an addictive game on how to design our own cities back in the age of Zeus. I've never been so addicted to a video game in ages now, and I'm glad I've returned to just enjoy that game.
The 3-hour morning break was spent in my dorm room typing up the Written Report to the FASHION thing, the "Spectacular" one from last Tuesday's performance. And the 2-hour break that proceeded was spent in my dorm room watching Jan and Lance play STAR WARS: JEDI OUTCASTS II.
I was ready for swimming and I joined Leah, Upper, Danielle, and Kats (female dormers inside the campus) in wearing just slippers from the Dormitory area to PLS which was like almost a whole kilometer away. We walked under the mid-afternoon sun and arrived at the swimming pool area.
That's where I realized that I didn't have a swimming cap! That's a requirement if you want to be considered PRESENT in the day's lectures and quizzes. I jumped into the pool anyways and practiced as much as I could even If I would later be considered absent. Then the instructor came and I was marked absent along with around 7 or 8 others. Jerson and Ronalyn didn't swim, and about four others didn't have a swimming cap.
I forgot to borrow one. And I was disappointed because I wanted a PERFECT ATTENDANCE for swimming. What a waste! Oh well. I have a make-up quiz next Tuesday with all those marked absent. I'll be swimming twice next week.
After taking more pictures at the pool like the previous weeks, I arrived around 6pm to the dormitories thinking I was late going to the gym. It so happened that nobody went to the gym that day. I just played more ZEUS in the evening and ate out at FIAT with Danielle and Upper (and missed The Amazing Race 3 on studio 23).
After eating at FIAT, I dropped the two girls to the lobby and I bought myself a hot cup of milk coffee for ten pesos. I went to the dorm to join Alex in F6 again in ZEUS when I convinced him to get a cup of coffee too. On our way back to the dorm, I encountered G7 Candy! Her hair is short now, she's moved on to the "College Look" I've been talking about. We spoke for a while and catched up on events and issues.
LAST FRIDAY
Those Damn Quizzes again!
Day of the Quizzes. For the 2nd Friday in a row, all subjects were loaded with QUIZZES. In Elementary Statistics it was part-disaster part-ok. In Pagbasa for my classmates, Mr. Garcia was busy in a meeting so they didn't have class.
We enjoyed a breakfast at Brejanah Cafe and studied for Biological Science at the kubos. During the BioSci test, it was only "PART ONE" and involved three problems on a one-whole sheet of yellow pad paper. Mitosis, Meiosis I and Meiosis II.
Another break allowed me to retreat to the dormitory and watch JP (from F7) play ZEUS, then he let me play ZEUS. Aldrich (from F5) walked in with some Doritos Salsa (the green one, my favorite) and loud Basil (from F9) came in time to time. I managed to stop playing 10 minutes before REED2 at 2:30pm. I swear, TIME MOVES FAST WITH ZEUS.
The quiz in REED2 was ok and the lesson Mrs. Planas gave out was interesting once again. REED teachers are different, they're so different... they all seem to have something super special.
I went back to the dorms to play ZEUS more and pack up to get picked up. No classes on Saturday! I invited Aldrich (from F5) to ride with us. Lance ate out at FIAT or somewhere outside with the people not-moving out on Friday, and I cleaned up my corner of the room and sprayed it with Lemon scent. Ahem. *cough*
We got picked up and I asked mom and the driver to drop Aldrich in General Trias.
Now what is with Aldrich?
Aldrich joins Lance and I in backgrounds. Let's put it this way.
GEORGE
- Father retired from the US Navy.
- Last station was at Camp Hansen in Okinawa Japan.
LANCE
- Father retired from the US Army.
- Last station was at Fort Erwin in Southern California.
ALDRICH
- Father is two years away from retirement.
- Father is currently serving the US Air Force.
- His parents and younger sister are currently station at Andersons Air Force Base in Guam.
Aldrich by far everyone I've met in the past four years is the closest one I can relate with. He's visited Okinawa. We've both visited South Korea. We both remember so many details and things about the US Armed Forces of the Pacific that we can recall the same little laundry shop behind the Gate at Osan Air Force Base in South Korea!
This is far closer then my background relations with Lance. Lance has nothing much to do with the Asia-Pacific US Bases.
Anyways, Aldrich is also more talkative. He could go on and on about something and I could relate with it well. In fact, the whole trip from Dasmariñas to the Bayan of General Trias was spent talking on and on about "the little things" of being dependents of US Armed Forces.
We dropped him off at his house, which is situated on a main road towards the Bayan of General Trias. Orange gates, but it was dark so it didn't really matter.
He's a new dorm mate at La Salle and I introduced him to my whole class during Sociology last Tuesday.
***
We arrived home on Friday night and I caught the last third of the recap episode of Survivor Thailand. Glad I did, so I'd understand what's been going on recently.
And that ended this long but odd week.
And on another note. I barely mentioned HERALDO FILIPINO at the end of the week.
It's suicide. I need inspiration for next week to slap me back into action.
Blind Item:I'm one of you too, remember that.
Title in Review: "It's getting cold in here.". La Salle Dasmariñas and the rest of town of Dasmariñas enters cold weather. It's sunny, but it's still cold. It's close to December now and it's the last week of November. The title can also explain my participation in the HERALDO FILIPINO this past week. I seem to lack balance and focus with the HF this week and my academics. My week fell more for Dormitory life relating to Alex and Aldrich, as well as the female dormers on several dinners out and movies. And of course, DIE ANOTHER DAY is a movie that focuses on ICE.
The Damage Report - End of Week #22
NOTE: this is a post that is made to give a summary of events that has happened at DLSU-D during the finished week.
One week without posting for so long, and where am I left now? It was a fast week. Andres Bonifacio gives me my weekend back! Thank you, thank you, thank you.
What-a-week! Well, it wasn't exactly as glamourous for Broadjourn like in Week #20 or as exciting as anything last Semester, but it's just a week filled with more of the little things relating to Dorm life.
First of all, I only logged into the Heraldo on Monday and Tuesday. On Tuesday, I don't think I logged out. From Wednesday until today (Friday) I didn't log in. I just didn't get that urge to go there and log in. I was feeling so low about my failure towards the Staffers' Corner. I was given an opportunity to compete with other selected writers to write up the next Staffers' Corner. In the previous broadsheet issues this year, my classmate Eric wrote one "Style or Substance", and then a neighboring AB Comm, Joanne Diaz wrote something about athletes in the exact previous one. Both by the way are First Year. I believe I'm the only first year asked in this round of Staffers' Corner. And I have failed.
I have failed. My first shot "Beautiful Danger" sounded more like an old poetry or a mix between James Bond and Austin Powers. Just bull. I'm not mad at anyone, I'm disappointed at myself! I seemed to have rushed so fast with the News Articles on Week #19 that I've burnt myself and lost the inspiration to write.
On all my news articles, I seemed to have gotten all the facts which is good but the format is all wrong! It's a wreck to the HF. On my Features' article with Kay Mori about the AB Comm, it was okay. It was okay with Kay. Then when it reaches our editor, we have to match our formats to a certain standard. It so happens that standard was already met by my article and even surpassed by Kay's half of the article. I'm not whining here, but things got blurry after that as Kay and I haven't had contact in a long time now (like, the whole week) and the layout is already starting again.
Arrg. And it doesn't stop there. I lend my scores to Joanna, which I recorded from the PRISAA in Week #21. It's in my pocket notebook which happens to carry my notes on the ABDUL IN MANILA episode. Great. The articles are due on December 2, Monday. My notes are probably with Joanna in some other province or city, and I'm caught with this tremendous headache.
To any heraldopeeps that could read this, I'm greatly sorry. I'm not blaming, but I'm frustrating at my errors this week. Fucking moody me again... can't get myself into that office the last three days. Bull.
Academics and Dorm Life greatly increased. Well, honestly speaking, more of the latter. Academics sprawled into the fourth week of the Preliminary Term with lectures, lessons, and what-else. While Dorm Life has greatly improved in all aspects. My corner of the room, my relations with all dorm mates, etc.
Another Interview is asked by INTRO
Last Monday was three hours of General Chemistry in the morning followed by a confusing interview-letter-interview-dean-interview-letter in Career Pathing. And in Intensive English, I met the prof for the first time since she's been absent the first two weeks and last week I was pulled by my own will to watch Harry Potter.
My third roomie, Jan, brought in STAR WARS: OUTCASTS II or something like that. It's a really fun game and from my position in the room I could watch everyone who was playing it. And on Charmed, it was a rerun with the Firestarter kid.
A Birthday before Fashion before Community Service!
After English we proceeded to Ate Angge's house and ate really crispy and tasty chicken! It was great. Classmates were all around. From watching GMA7 in the living room or enjoying CANDY mags in Ate Angge's room, to eating at the dining room. Happy Birthday again Ate Angge!
Other highlights were in Sociology where I invited dorm mates Aldrich and Karl into my class (on-the-spot too) to wear something fashionable so they can help my group out in presenting. It turned out to become a great success and by our 9 month pregnant professor, it was "Spectacular". And in NSTP-CWTSP, we went on-location to Bgy. Bautista for a short re-orientation with our families. I saw Jennieve for the first time, she's the daughter of Ate Rose the family that I'm assigned to.
And of course, on Tuesday night, F3 would be loaded with interested dorm mates who want to watch SMALLVILLE. It's the most popular show on my television set at the dorms. That's when almost all else stops just for that one hour.
I guess i'll die another day!
Last Wednesday was the typical washday. And if I remember, that's the day I started to greatly dislike Biological Science. What was big about Wednesday was my excitement to catch DIE ANOTHER DAY which premiered on that day. I didn't expect it to show that day, so when I found out- I went ALL OUT to invite people and get going to catch the 20th Bond Film.
So right after REED2 I managed to gather Upper, Teenah, and Danielle to join what was supposed to be many of my dorm mates. Instead, I couldn't find JOEL, I don't know where ALDRICH was at, and LANCE was no where to be found. I managed to get at least someone, someONE... his name is Alex from F6 (once again, F1-F11, I'm F3).
Alex is one of three of all the guys at the dorms that I've been distant from. I've been familiar with almost everybody else except Alex. Alex is a ComSci student and is a member of ComSci 1-2. That happens to be the "all star class" as I like to tag because: My high school batchmate Veejay is a member of that class. So are dormers BRIAN from F9, and Alex's room mate ALLEN in F6.
Anyways we headed off to Robinsons IMUS and arrived around 6:10pm. Teenah met with her boyfriend Gaynor while Danielle and Upper formed an instant team as well. Alex and I joked around as the group found itself eating at Jollybee and later taking those sticker picture thingys (i can't believe i forgot the name) in the booth inside AGFA on the first floor.
We entered CINEMA 4 for the 7:15pm showing of DIE ANOTHER DAY. I was so excited by this point that I just kept on joking, talking endlessly to Alex about weird things in the mall and about the movie.
We entered and it was just on time. I mean, we wearn't late. And another thing was, we sat in the center fo the deluxe area, fourth row from the front! The screen was huge. The faces were huge. But it would all be part of the experience of DIE ANOTHER DAY.
***
The movie was just amazing. "It's brilliant to Bond Fans and a thrill to the others who watch it." But to comment on something in the movie was that "Bond has entered the age of Titanic." errr... the Iceburg Tidal Wave scene was now more digital then ever. Meaning, the scene was too good and too exciting- to be true. Other than that, the movie is something I'd grab on DVD in the future.
(and speaking of DVD, Episode II: Attack of the Clones, is now out on tape and DVD I believe. But where is it?)
We arrived in La Salle around 10:15pm, an hour and a half beyond curfew. But Alex and my IDs wearn't taken while the girls' IDs were taken. I don't know how to explain that.
An Addiction to Zeus and an Absence to Swimming!
My addiction to Alex's (Dorm mate in F6) ZEUS game grew today. It's an addictive game on how to design our own cities back in the age of Zeus. I've never been so addicted to a video game in ages now, and I'm glad I've returned to just enjoy that game.
The 3-hour morning break was spent in my dorm room typing up the Written Report to the FASHION thing, the "Spectacular" one from last Tuesday's performance. And the 2-hour break that proceeded was spent in my dorm room watching Jan and Lance play STAR WARS: JEDI OUTCASTS II.
I was ready for swimming and I joined Leah, Upper, Danielle, and Kats (female dormers inside the campus) in wearing just slippers from the Dormitory area to PLS which was like almost a whole kilometer away. We walked under the mid-afternoon sun and arrived at the swimming pool area.
That's where I realized that I didn't have a swimming cap! That's a requirement if you want to be considered PRESENT in the day's lectures and quizzes. I jumped into the pool anyways and practiced as much as I could even If I would later be considered absent. Then the instructor came and I was marked absent along with around 7 or 8 others. Jerson and Ronalyn didn't swim, and about four others didn't have a swimming cap.
I forgot to borrow one. And I was disappointed because I wanted a PERFECT ATTENDANCE for swimming. What a waste! Oh well. I have a make-up quiz next Tuesday with all those marked absent. I'll be swimming twice next week.
After taking more pictures at the pool like the previous weeks, I arrived around 6pm to the dormitories thinking I was late going to the gym. It so happened that nobody went to the gym that day. I just played more ZEUS in the evening and ate out at FIAT with Danielle and Upper (and missed The Amazing Race 3 on studio 23).
After eating at FIAT, I dropped the two girls to the lobby and I bought myself a hot cup of milk coffee for ten pesos. I went to the dorm to join Alex in F6 again in ZEUS when I convinced him to get a cup of coffee too. On our way back to the dorm, I encountered G7 Candy! Her hair is short now, she's moved on to the "College Look" I've been talking about. We spoke for a while and catched up on events and issues.
Those Damn Quizzes again!
Day of the Quizzes. For the 2nd Friday in a row, all subjects were loaded with QUIZZES. In Elementary Statistics it was part-disaster part-ok. In Pagbasa for my classmates, Mr. Garcia was busy in a meeting so they didn't have class.
We enjoyed a breakfast at Brejanah Cafe and studied for Biological Science at the kubos. During the BioSci test, it was only "PART ONE" and involved three problems on a one-whole sheet of yellow pad paper. Mitosis, Meiosis I and Meiosis II.
Another break allowed me to retreat to the dormitory and watch JP (from F7) play ZEUS, then he let me play ZEUS. Aldrich (from F5) walked in with some Doritos Salsa (the green one, my favorite) and loud Basil (from F9) came in time to time. I managed to stop playing 10 minutes before REED2 at 2:30pm. I swear, TIME MOVES FAST WITH ZEUS.
The quiz in REED2 was ok and the lesson Mrs. Planas gave out was interesting once again. REED teachers are different, they're so different... they all seem to have something super special.
I went back to the dorms to play ZEUS more and pack up to get picked up. No classes on Saturday! I invited Aldrich (from F5) to ride with us. Lance ate out at FIAT or somewhere outside with the people not-moving out on Friday, and I cleaned up my corner of the room and sprayed it with Lemon scent. Ahem. *cough*
We got picked up and I asked mom and the driver to drop Aldrich in General Trias.
Now what is with Aldrich?
Aldrich joins Lance and I in backgrounds. Let's put it this way.
GEORGE
- Father retired from the US Navy.
- Last station was at Camp Hansen in Okinawa Japan.
LANCE
- Father retired from the US Army.
- Last station was at Fort Erwin in Southern California.
ALDRICH
- Father is two years away from retirement.
- Father is currently serving the US Air Force.
- His parents and younger sister are currently station at Andersons Air Force Base in Guam.
Aldrich by far everyone I've met in the past four years is the closest one I can relate with. He's visited Okinawa. We've both visited South Korea. We both remember so many details and things about the US Armed Forces of the Pacific that we can recall the same little laundry shop behind the Gate at Osan Air Force Base in South Korea!
This is far closer then my background relations with Lance. Lance has nothing much to do with the Asia-Pacific US Bases.
Anyways, Aldrich is also more talkative. He could go on and on about something and I could relate with it well. In fact, the whole trip from Dasmariñas to the Bayan of General Trias was spent talking on and on about "the little things" of being dependents of US Armed Forces.
We dropped him off at his house, which is situated on a main road towards the Bayan of General Trias. Orange gates, but it was dark so it didn't really matter.
He's a new dorm mate at La Salle and I introduced him to my whole class during Sociology last Tuesday.
***
We arrived home on Friday night and I caught the last third of the recap episode of Survivor Thailand. Glad I did, so I'd understand what's been going on recently.
And that ended this long but odd week.
And on another note. I barely mentioned HERALDO FILIPINO at the end of the week.
It's suicide. I need inspiration for next week to slap me back into action.
Blind Item:I'm one of you too, remember that.
Title in Review: "It's getting cold in here.". La Salle Dasmariñas and the rest of town of Dasmariñas enters cold weather. It's sunny, but it's still cold. It's close to December now and it's the last week of November. The title can also explain my participation in the HERALDO FILIPINO this past week. I seem to lack balance and focus with the HF this week and my academics. My week fell more for Dormitory life relating to Alex and Aldrich, as well as the female dormers on several dinners out and movies. And of course, DIE ANOTHER DAY is a movie that focuses on ICE.
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