Tuesday, April 08, 2003
DAY ONE of the Broadjourn Summer Term
It was the first time I commuted to DLSU-D from our house in Tanza. My estimated one-hour tops trip turned out wrong. It takes about 1 1/2 hours to get to that campus from my house. And to top that, there's no traffic! It's nothing but endless fields and rolling hills, dust and debris, and burning mid-morning sunlight. I hated it. I wish I had good driving skills. I wish I had a Driver's License. I wish I had a car. It was a perfect route to practice driving. A perfect time to use for driving. Driving to campus and driving back home.
My ambition was just that. Hopefully by my 2nd Year Summer, I'm not practicing how to drive. I'm driving already. I'm hoping by the 2nd Semester of 2nd year, I'm driving a car going from Point A to Point B.
It takes three rides to get to the campus from my house. First, I have to walk across the sub-division to the main road. Next, I have to wait for a Trece jeepnee. I pay P9 to get off at the Trece Sakayan. Thank God for the Trece Sakayan! You could go almost anywhere from there (Dasma Bayan, Imus Palengke, Indang, Coastal Baclaran, etc.).
Across rolling hills and industrial estates, I pass Nikki's Metrogate and arrive at Pala-Pala. From Pala Pala the jeep continues into the heart of Dasmariñas Bayan. There, I board a 3rd Jeep going to "AREA C" or "AREA F". Pay P4.
I stumble out of a jeepnee in front of the Main Gate at La Salle. The fresh Gputz that came out of his house an hour and thirty minutes ago in Tanza is now this wrecked Gputz walking past the Main Gate of La Salle.
LATE FOR PHILOSOPHY
That's what happened this morning. I was attending my first "Philosophy of Man" class at DPH 206 (center of the University, far from all the gates) which would be from 1000 to 1200. I left the house at 0900 thinking I'd make it in time. I arrived quarter to 1100 hours.
I walked past the dormitories inside the campus. I looked over the medium-high wall and fence and glanced at a hallway that I used to walk on.
I made my way into DPH and saw my classmates sitting on the chairs. I made my way in. The professor was a woman wearing glasses and she was in the middle of introducing Philosophy to the class.
I sat down next to William on the other side of the classroom. The weather was extremely hot and the depressive setting of DPH didn't make things easier.
The professor continued her discussion. She included some light humor in her discussion... but the heat was just so intense in the room I could barely make myself laugh. I've had a cold the past few days so I was dealing with it in my corner of the classroom.
We got dismissed and we all broke apart. I followed classmates towards Square Canteen and it was cram-packed. We headed off-campus and we ate at Georjops. The "boarding-house" style eatery walking distance from the Main Gate. They always have Inihaw na Liempo there. I enjoyed a Mango Shake (for the heck of it) and we had some pictures taken for the record.
THE WAITING GAME AGAIN
We returned into La Salle and spent the next few hours fixing up our enrolment for ENGL102. We waited for them to open the class, and when they opened it, we had to get the details for our Add/Drop Form. We waited behind the Admin and enjoyed some "chikahan" and basically we just made "tambay". Jhen came by with Athena. Athena had the Jennifer Lopez look the whole day. When Athena smiled and we didn't really hear what she was saying, Jhen's loud voice would proclaim in native tongue "Athena is looking for an air conditioned room."
We all laughed because Athena was wearing long-sleeves and her hat looked like something you'd wear at an air conditioned bar and restaurant. She looks ready for the Club scene and not really for enrolment. She looked nice today and it wasn't a big fuss, but Jhen's unending comments and jokes kept the mood lively during the heat.
At one point, we were all seated behind the Admin on the chairs. We were already finished at the Admin but we just didn't move from our seats. The heat was just killing us.
"Terra-lets..." someone would say. A few people would sit up slightly and then fall back onto the chair.
OPENING UP SOME CONVERSATIONS
We finally broke free of this and headed for the breezy CBA building, the biggest and most beautiful building on campus. There, I had my first conversation with Jericho. Jericho is a member of the Atheneum Class of 2001. He's an English speaking person in that batch, but I never had connections and conversations with him ever. Not during High School, and not during the past year.
So he's a Rad Tech (RT) student under the College of Science. He's entering 3rd Year now. He was with his girlfriend there sitting on the side of CBA. My personality has adapted the "approach" strategy now rather than that "shy away" thing. If in High School I saw him, I would have ignored him and not talk. But now, he was right there in front of me. We're no longer in High School. I'm an incoming 2nd Year BROADJOURN student and he's an incoming 3rd Year RADTECH student. We both live in different worlds' now away from that Martial Law Quadrangle of my High School.
So, I approached him and we exchanged some talk about life lately in College.
We waited in CBA for quite awhile. We submitted our forms and had to wait for another hour or so to get our new registration forms. I visited the E-House (on-campus dormitory lobby) to meet Aldrich, but he happened to have left just a moment before I got there. Bad timing. But I took advantage of the situation and decided to have a conversation with Sister. Sister and I have had conversations before, but nothing so serious or more personal. I got some neat details.
- 2 Buildings are now fully booked for next year's On-campus Men's dormitory. Woah.
- You can automatically upgrade a P2,500 unit into a P2,800 air-conditioned unit.
STOPPING BY THE OFFICE
At the Heraldo Filipino, AB Com and HF editors Ate July and Kuya Marthy were surprised by the subjects being taken up by Broadcast Journalism. They saw my Curriculum Flowchart. I have my own likings of AB Communication subjects like [Media Production], [Advertising], and [Performing Arts].
At the HF, Eric and I read we have Invocation assignments for the Freshmen Year Orientation. I'm assigned for May 24, but I believe it is actually May 26 since there's no orientation for May 24 and no one is assigned to May 26. On May 26, I'm going to be reading a prayer for the orientation of the College of Nursing or students under Nursing.
Maycee and Eric were assigned to the HF Booth for Recruitment. I want to join them so we'll be complete for once.
YOU HAVE SUCCESSFULLY LOADED
Finally, we returned back to the CBA Building and received our new Reg Forms. The final version of it. The two subjects that we need to be taking up this Summer are now successfully loaded. [Communication Arts and Skills 2 aka ENGL102] from 0800 to 1000 and then [Philosophy of Man] from 1000 to 1200. 0800 to 1200 are my classes from Monday to Friday until late-May.
It was the first time I commuted to DLSU-D from our house in Tanza. My estimated one-hour tops trip turned out wrong. It takes about 1 1/2 hours to get to that campus from my house. And to top that, there's no traffic! It's nothing but endless fields and rolling hills, dust and debris, and burning mid-morning sunlight. I hated it. I wish I had good driving skills. I wish I had a Driver's License. I wish I had a car. It was a perfect route to practice driving. A perfect time to use for driving. Driving to campus and driving back home.
My ambition was just that. Hopefully by my 2nd Year Summer, I'm not practicing how to drive. I'm driving already. I'm hoping by the 2nd Semester of 2nd year, I'm driving a car going from Point A to Point B.
It takes three rides to get to the campus from my house. First, I have to walk across the sub-division to the main road. Next, I have to wait for a Trece jeepnee. I pay P9 to get off at the Trece Sakayan. Thank God for the Trece Sakayan! You could go almost anywhere from there (Dasma Bayan, Imus Palengke, Indang, Coastal Baclaran, etc.).
Across rolling hills and industrial estates, I pass Nikki's Metrogate and arrive at Pala-Pala. From Pala Pala the jeep continues into the heart of Dasmariñas Bayan. There, I board a 3rd Jeep going to "AREA C" or "AREA F". Pay P4.
I stumble out of a jeepnee in front of the Main Gate at La Salle. The fresh Gputz that came out of his house an hour and thirty minutes ago in Tanza is now this wrecked Gputz walking past the Main Gate of La Salle.
LATE FOR PHILOSOPHY
That's what happened this morning. I was attending my first "Philosophy of Man" class at DPH 206 (center of the University, far from all the gates) which would be from 1000 to 1200. I left the house at 0900 thinking I'd make it in time. I arrived quarter to 1100 hours.
I walked past the dormitories inside the campus. I looked over the medium-high wall and fence and glanced at a hallway that I used to walk on.
I made my way into DPH and saw my classmates sitting on the chairs. I made my way in. The professor was a woman wearing glasses and she was in the middle of introducing Philosophy to the class.
I sat down next to William on the other side of the classroom. The weather was extremely hot and the depressive setting of DPH didn't make things easier.
The professor continued her discussion. She included some light humor in her discussion... but the heat was just so intense in the room I could barely make myself laugh. I've had a cold the past few days so I was dealing with it in my corner of the classroom.
We got dismissed and we all broke apart. I followed classmates towards Square Canteen and it was cram-packed. We headed off-campus and we ate at Georjops. The "boarding-house" style eatery walking distance from the Main Gate. They always have Inihaw na Liempo there. I enjoyed a Mango Shake (for the heck of it) and we had some pictures taken for the record.
THE WAITING GAME AGAIN
We returned into La Salle and spent the next few hours fixing up our enrolment for ENGL102. We waited for them to open the class, and when they opened it, we had to get the details for our Add/Drop Form. We waited behind the Admin and enjoyed some "chikahan" and basically we just made "tambay". Jhen came by with Athena. Athena had the Jennifer Lopez look the whole day. When Athena smiled and we didn't really hear what she was saying, Jhen's loud voice would proclaim in native tongue "Athena is looking for an air conditioned room."
We all laughed because Athena was wearing long-sleeves and her hat looked like something you'd wear at an air conditioned bar and restaurant. She looks ready for the Club scene and not really for enrolment. She looked nice today and it wasn't a big fuss, but Jhen's unending comments and jokes kept the mood lively during the heat.
At one point, we were all seated behind the Admin on the chairs. We were already finished at the Admin but we just didn't move from our seats. The heat was just killing us.
"Terra-lets..." someone would say. A few people would sit up slightly and then fall back onto the chair.
OPENING UP SOME CONVERSATIONS
We finally broke free of this and headed for the breezy CBA building, the biggest and most beautiful building on campus. There, I had my first conversation with Jericho. Jericho is a member of the Atheneum Class of 2001. He's an English speaking person in that batch, but I never had connections and conversations with him ever. Not during High School, and not during the past year.
So he's a Rad Tech (RT) student under the College of Science. He's entering 3rd Year now. He was with his girlfriend there sitting on the side of CBA. My personality has adapted the "approach" strategy now rather than that "shy away" thing. If in High School I saw him, I would have ignored him and not talk. But now, he was right there in front of me. We're no longer in High School. I'm an incoming 2nd Year BROADJOURN student and he's an incoming 3rd Year RADTECH student. We both live in different worlds' now away from that Martial Law Quadrangle of my High School.
So, I approached him and we exchanged some talk about life lately in College.
We waited in CBA for quite awhile. We submitted our forms and had to wait for another hour or so to get our new registration forms. I visited the E-House (on-campus dormitory lobby) to meet Aldrich, but he happened to have left just a moment before I got there. Bad timing. But I took advantage of the situation and decided to have a conversation with Sister. Sister and I have had conversations before, but nothing so serious or more personal. I got some neat details.
- 2 Buildings are now fully booked for next year's On-campus Men's dormitory. Woah.
- You can automatically upgrade a P2,500 unit into a P2,800 air-conditioned unit.
STOPPING BY THE OFFICE
At the Heraldo Filipino, AB Com and HF editors Ate July and Kuya Marthy were surprised by the subjects being taken up by Broadcast Journalism. They saw my Curriculum Flowchart. I have my own likings of AB Communication subjects like [Media Production], [Advertising], and [Performing Arts].
At the HF, Eric and I read we have Invocation assignments for the Freshmen Year Orientation. I'm assigned for May 24, but I believe it is actually May 26 since there's no orientation for May 24 and no one is assigned to May 26. On May 26, I'm going to be reading a prayer for the orientation of the College of Nursing or students under Nursing.
Maycee and Eric were assigned to the HF Booth for Recruitment. I want to join them so we'll be complete for once.
YOU HAVE SUCCESSFULLY LOADED
Finally, we returned back to the CBA Building and received our new Reg Forms. The final version of it. The two subjects that we need to be taking up this Summer are now successfully loaded. [Communication Arts and Skills 2 aka ENGL102] from 0800 to 1000 and then [Philosophy of Man] from 1000 to 1200. 0800 to 1200 are my classes from Monday to Friday until late-May.
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