Saturday, August 23, 2003
WHAT IS WORTH LIVING FOR
The Damage Report - Year 2 - Ending Week #11
Background Music: "Show Me How To Live" by Audioslave
NOTE: This is a weekly blog entry that summarizes a series of events of a finished week in and around La Salle.
NEARLY THREE weeks it has been spinning in circles trying to finish up whatever needs to be finished. I am sick and I am tired and the past week I felt like a walking invalid.
RAIN AND A MOVIE
I came in on Monday afternoon and enjoyed a KFC lunch and then joining Kyle in the room in watching some pirated VCD movies. He's an addict these days. Sometimes he even skips class. And right now, I think he has a big personal problem.
The movie we watched was Artificial Intelligence, and yes, he does buy old pirated VCDs. I watched it before, but watching it again on a rainy and lazy afternoon just soothed me and mushed me up in sentimental sadness. Jason of F7 passed by and reminded me of how it made people want to cry.
After the movie, I proceeded to JFH 107 for the AB Comm Channel meeting and then back to the dorms. I didn't go to the Heraldo Filipino.
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TUESDAY - BREAKING ALL THE RULES
Tuesday came. And I 50% unintentionally and 50% intentionally skipped all my morning classes. I didn't mean to miss SPEECH, in which I had a very important presentation in with my group mates... but somehow the cold air of Tuesday morning... the rains outside... and my double matress bed was just so comfortable I decided to just relax.
Alex wasn't sleeping in for the week, although he does frequent the room a lot. Basil slept over since he said he wanted to try out a new peaceful environment (huh? F3 a peaceful environment?!). Basil missed his first class but made it to his 2nd class.
In Constitution my soul jumped out when Sir suddenly asked me if my ambush interview of him on the Lakeside Avenue last week was put in the tape recorder. It wasn't! I was just asking to get references to use because I was on the way to interview Dean Aquino Garcia of CLA.
In Computer we had another substitute.
For the evening, I surfed at NERO with Lance and them and it was very addictive. I also established further the joint-tropa blog "The Promenade" and invited the rest to join. The internet at NERO is DSL I believe... no wonder it's so addictive.
We were supposed to eat together, but that didn't happen. Lance and them went to 7-11 while Abbie, Len, and I where suddenly shocked at their sudden walkout. I took the steering wheel of the decisions and led us to Binalot sa Dasma for our quick dinner since curfew was near.
There's a major problem right now in our tropa. Lance... Abbie... Aldrich... even Myself. We all have our demons to face and these demons are so hard.
Rules broken:
- Absent in Three Classes (luckily in Comm. Theory Ms. Sigari was absent, makes me absent in 2 classes)
- Late for the News Feature article (at the time)
- Cut Constitution to eat semi-Lunch (encouraged by Jhen, such a bad bad girl... heheh)
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WEDNESDAY - TATARIN II
Washday Wednesday and it would be the day Broadjourn2-1, my section, would be "re-staging" Tatarin again as requested by the FILIPINO department since we are one of the top placers. I was in charge of sounds, but I woke up late once again. Teenah will have my head!
I rushed as fast as I could but even that was still too slow. I borrowed Tom's radio and rushed to the JFH grounds and started fixing up the sounds. The class was dressing up into their costumes again inside JFH 101. Broadjourn3-1 was outside and the venue of the performances isn't at the Rotonda like two weeks ago... it's at the CLA grounds! That's our college.
We would be the first to perform since we were 3rd Place. I rushed and fixed the sounds and my classmates, in character, danced themselves to the front of the JFH grounds. Like before, the crowds cheered. It was the first time we had the music working, since during the parade the music system wasn't available.
After the performance, we received our trophy and Jeremy Manicad accepted it on behalf of Broadjourn2-1. The program continued with someone singing and suddenly Kevin appeared out of no where and approached me to get details about the event.
Markova and Dekada '70 performed, both First Year Nursing. Both of them were tied at 2nd Place. "Engkanto" by BSM/BSA2-1 wasn't re-staged. It was directed, choreographed, and even acted out by my friend in the dorms and new co-staffer at HF, Thomas "Tom" Wagan.
Afterwards we still had a class in Reed103. But before that, I had a Frio Mixx Green Apple from the kiosk set up there. The person who ordered after me was Jairus of COM2-3... and after seeing this person in the hall for so long now, even in Fiat... I decided it was time to introduce myself so we could do the meet and greet everytime we see each other in the halls. (COM2-3's classrooms are next to JOU2-1 most of the time). We met.
Had a quiz in Reed103 and we sang more Lea Salonga songs. Heheh.
And in Art Appreciation, it was supposed to be at the Museo. But then there was a problem with the reservation so we ended up having a discussion inside of the classroom.
In the evening, I retrieved some handouts from the stalls and it started to rain again. I stayed at the dorms and laughed out loud with Jason from F7 and Joseph of F11 when Kyle had "American (Pie 3) Wedding" on. It was funny, and pirated. Yikes.
I thought Lance had promised to join me at FIAT for dinner with Badge, Apple, and Ayesha for a revived "Broadjourn Dormers Night Out". But he was at NERO after I went looking for him after eating at FIAT. After I ate at FIAT, my plan was to surf and catch up on all lost research.
On my way to NERO, he was on his way up the eskinita. I was surprised. He was also with Tony. They were headed to Inazalle with the the tropa. But I just ate!
You know what happens to me at inazalle if I have a full stomach and there's a lot of time.
Full stomach + Extra Time + Night + Inazalle = Drinking
Ahhh! Instead of researching at NERO for the sake of a better grade, I ended up joining the rest (four connected tables of friends) at Inazalle. Everyone ate dinner while I had one San Mig Light and a Caramel Chill. If I went to NERO, I would've been by myself while the whole tropa was enjoying themsleves at Inazalle.
At the dorms on Wednesday night, Tony read out this spanish poem he made. His dad and his grandfather are spanish. He said to me "El Differente Mente Usted" or something like that. Translated: "Something is different with your mind."
That one bottle of San Mig Light did not make me an ounce tipsy! No! I was just suddenly open with my words and I was even shouting and acting stupid. But I wasn't tipsy at all. I just felt like shouting and joking out loud and talking about things and people that bother me even if they could be outside listening. Hmph.
I was calling Lance "Traidor Mente!" or "Traidor Mind!!" for changing my whole plan of the evening by going ahead to NERO and eating afterwards instead of the other way around. Look what happened Lance... I was tempted to drink.
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THURSDAY - CATCHING UP
I was late and nearly insane as I entered the Speech Lab. My Visual Aid grade is no more while the speech I gave was still pushed through. In Comm. Theory we had a quiz and we had a discussion on the Uncertainty Reduction Theory which gave me a bit of a headache like the rest of those other damned theories. But heck, this is my course and this is my first major... I gotta love it. *Plastik Smile*
In Retorika we had a discussion about newspapers and tabloids. I recited once, made me smile at least and wake up. The lunch was supposed to be a reunion but instead everyone else headed for Square. I managed to get Eric and Kate to join me at Inazalle... yes, again... and enjoy some good food while we reviewed for Constitution.
I barely got to review for constitution and when the quiz came, I could barely answer it. Bawi na lang sa exams. I'm not having a good week.
In Computer we had a discussion... a very boring one that I refused to listen to. Talk about losing my head in my studies for the day.
And in Speech, yes... again... Speech Make-up class we had a quiz that I made guess practical answers in since it was Essay-type. The remaining groups did their speeches while Maycee and I headed for Heraldo Filipino to join Eric and Kate who were already attending the News Meeting called by Ate Tina.
Eventually what came out of the meeting was a pat on the back from Ate Tina and two apprentice to help me out on the News Feature. Things are looking great now and I have renewed confidence in the NEWS section now that the apprentice staff are moving. I left the office with a smile.
In the dorms, a lot of people went home. Only a few remained. We were going to Festival Supermall on Friday, despite it being a holiday for Ninoy Aquino.
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FRIDAY - FESTIVAL PROBLEMS
I slept in F4 and woke up late! I set 10am the departure time and I was the only one to wake up at 10am while the rest were already in their nice clothes. We ended up waiting for Lance and later on I invited Mark and his girl Camille (gradute of Baste, Psychology1-2) and arrived at Festival Supermall around 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
Basta, whoever you see in the picture are the people that were there. Barely half of the tropa showed up, but we still had a studio picture.
I didn't do much. Well, I did hang out with Lance and up to now there's a problem within the tropa involving Lance and Abbie and Aldrich. The formula of a love triangle... that's supposed to be finished and dealt with but certain issues rise out of no where and clashes form. I'm happy for Abbie that she's found someone that will genuinely make her happy. I support Lance but I'm telling him to move on and ahead but he's having some problems there. And for Aldrich, well... um... I refuse to comment.
We all didn't do much.
Lunch (basically Merienda time) was at Wendy's and I even had a Frio Mixx Green Apple thing near X-Site. I had invited my former best friend (Best Friend during High School) Bryan but he was with Nikki in UP-Diliman. Ninz finally arrived after she popped up at the wrong cinema ticket booth (at ATC), see The Promenade for details. Heheh.
Lance joined me in looking for something to buy. I was so damn picky I couldn't find anything I liked. All the clothes at Penshoppe either reminded me too much of Aldrich and Mik while the clothes at Bench are really wide (literally). We couldn't find Blue Soda. At Human, the clothes looked too fresh from the factory. The clothes inside GIORVANO were Php 800 to 8,000... so on and so forth. I couldn't find anything. But thanks Lance for joining me...
I was sad I didn't have a shopping bag. I mean, I wanted to leave the mall holding a plastic with new clothes in it. My budget was P500 and I wanted a nice polo. I didn't find one. Awww...
We had our studio pictures taken. Three shots with the whole present tropa, and another extra shot with Kyle, Kevin, and Lance... the four of us. I also had a 2x2 picture taken but I didn't really like the result.
Basically it came down to Kyle, Kevin, Lance, and myself on the return trip to La Salle. After eating at Popeyes Chicken, we rushed down the mall like always. I remember back in High School we did the same and I was with Lance. I also remember last Summer rushing down the mall with Aldrich and Karl. We managed to fit in the last FX bound for Dasmarinas and La Salle. We almost missed it. Thank goodness.
Lance watched Kevin play FFX in the dorms while I slept over. And that was that.
George's clothes on Friday courtesy Lance Prodigalidad and Oxygen.
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