And So, The Countdown Began

It's Christmas... I don't expect gifts anymore. :( Why? Because I received my early Christmas gift: a pair of hamsters! Yay! I named them Aerol (silent L) and Ice (said ai-ze). The reasons for such names? It's a secret.

I was like a dentrimental freak when I looked at those cuties. They made me forget my problems. (and my homework, too. Ö) At first, I put them in a glass tank and filled it with newspaper shreds. They like to bury themselves in the shreds, especially Ice since Aerol does nothing but nibble. o_O A few days after, I bought (actually, MY DAD BOUGHT) a new metal cage for them, complete with the wheel (I call it the Hamster Wheel. Ü) and a "house". I was like a dork waiting for them to ride the wheel but after hours, my waiting paid off, Aerol rode the wheel and he never got off. Yay! It was just so~ cute. <3 and after some time Ice rode. And now they are still fighting over the wheel. And the "house"? It was on a sort-of "second floor" of the cage. Aerol went to the roof of the house (went to the next level via the "stairs". Hamsters don't fly. o_O) and he was like looking down from the roof. And he fell to the base of the cage. Ouch!

One of my problems is the organization I'm applying for. I went through a lot of conflicts with my parents but my misbehavior blew their fuse. So I resolved to not joining any organizations for internal peace. What sacrifice. T_T

And, oh, last Friday, I got to talk with my Physics crush. Kyaa~!!! I wished to talk with my crush for at least five minutes of my life but that day, we ended up talking for an accumulative of 30 minutes! Yay! It's about Physics, though. But at least we "talked". And I get to stick my arm with my crush's. HEAVEN!

The 6 Threats of the Semester

Yup... Read it right... THREATS... I'm talking about my subjects for the semester, though.

P.E. (Taekwondo): PHYSICAL THREAT

C'mon, I CHOSE it. So I should <3 it... But the prob is... Our instructor is Korean. What's wrong? Nothing. Except that... You know... I call it "nosebleed sessions". Figure out for yourself why.

Physics (Electromagnetism): DROWSY THREAT

Or is it threat of drowsiness? Whatever... I just can't understand what our professor is saying. The worse part? She's from the evolutionary line of Drowzy and Hypno. o_O

Mathematics (Vector Calculus and Series): CARELESS THREAT

Darn... I could have aced the exam, I COULD HAVE!!! Darn mental blocks... Darn another exam... Darn integrals? Hmmm... I should love integrals...

Mathematics (Geometry): NOT A THREAT

Goodness! Why are you on the list on my threats!? You are the last one to threaten me! LOL. Geometry is so easy, like... auto-LOL-zzz... Ü

Mathematics (Abstract Algebra I): MAJOR THREAT

Oh no! Professor, where art thou! We are in the verge of failing! Imagine having 2 out of 10 sessions... Ö

Computer Science: MECHA THREAT

A stupid pun for MEGA THREAT but, oh well, we are dealing with computers here. And I hate logics and logistics. And, once again, syntaxes... *faints*

LOL, But I love all my subjects. ^^

3 in 1: Of Chopsticks and Nosebleeding and Regional Schools Press Conference

*Paragraph number 1 and 2 are inter-related, while 3 is not.*

 

1.) December 08, 2008: The first time I ate w/ chopsticks! Yay! Some of my friends (slash-co-apps-for-an-org.Ü) went to a Japanese restaurant. And I almost fainted. Really. And then when it's lunch time, I became dizzy with what I saw: chopsticks. Like I whispered to them: I never ate with these. Then Sofia taught me how to... Then... Yay! I ate with chopsticks! LOL Not just by that time but during a Christmas Party as well on the same date. Make that 3 meals... Ö

 

2.) On the same date, we went to a... uh... how do I call these... Jap Christmas Party? Yeah... nothing more to say except my nose bled and I... uh... nevermind. Hahaha!!! ~<3

 

3.) RSPC last week! Yay! What happened to Jovitte... Hmmm... Okay, I'll "reminisce" again... During my RSPC time, I just laxed 'coz I know I'm not really that lucky and *insert words of high-level here* to go to the Nationals. Our topic during that time was about beauty pageants. And I was like.

qo_Op

"OK, time to go home!" And, as usual, I wrote random words and when we went back to the billeting school and my mom called and consoled me... Besides, it's just okay bacause it's my first time... And last time... But I got 3rd place, we will proceed to the Nationals in Boracay, my teacher is jumping for joy, and i was like...

d(o)_(O)b

Some random rantings...

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UP Math Major's Shirt [w/ the unwanted model]

Shirt Design by Paul Reine Kennett dela Rosa (tama ba spelling? :P)
He won the Math Shirt Design contest. ^^

New Hairstyle

My new hairstyle this Nov.08, after a trip to the salon. :)

Old Hairstyle

My hairstyle last Nov.07, before I went to the salon. :P

I Made a Mistake, refer to Previous Blog Entry

Well, it's not really a total mistake but I want to clarify things.

I said last time about Press Conference, right?

What I told you is about the District Meet, my bad... :P

Now, this is about the Division Meet...

From our school van (as usual), we went to the next host school. It was a surpirise for me to see another school which I graduated Kindergarten (or is it Kindergarden? :O whatever...). That school is where my cousins and my sister are studying, and it's a surprise the principal still knew me! :D So we have a little "chit-chat" and waited for the opening and the contest proper.

Us, schoolmates, had firmed and convinced ourselves that we will not proceed to the Regional Meet, that this is as far as we could get. [But at least we want a rank, even the small ones.]

Contest proper. My topic was *drum roll* about teenagers. :O You might think this is easy. But for an egocentric, anti-social brat like me? No... As usual I don't know what to write. I was thinking, am I to write those mushy stuff on TV? Or will I write about my life for a change? And... a song? (refer to previous post regarding the song)... Do, yet again, I wrote down random words. It was so long ago I didn't remember what I wrote. But still the topic is very clear.

Then I hurried back to my school-paper adviser. I just mumbled into him that I'm really to lose because of the topic. But he said that it was too easy, and I stood up silent. I can't obviously tell him what I am and what things I had undergone. So we just stayed and watched the "talent show" and went to the next day for the results.

So it was. We (schoolmates) just shouted to each other, "Congrats to the winners, kudos to us losers!" :P And if someone from us got a ranking, we just applaud for them. Those who received the ranking from 1st to 3rd will proceed to the next meet. Hahahaha... And for my category... 7th... 6th... 5th... 4th... Blah! We just said... I shouted, "Whoohoo!!! I lost! Wahahaha!!!" and then... 3rd... 2nd... and 1st is... :O

Oh no, it's me... :O Confound it! :O "No way!" are the words that I said. I can't believe that my string of words got a gold medal. I just said, "It's plain luck, really!" And they are hitting me hard. And I can see through their :eye:s that they are somewhat trying to avoid me. And what can I do, it already happened!!! Oh no... I'm thinking by that time, Regional Meet will be my last...

Or is it?

Reminiscing: Division PressCon [and my First Theatre Acting Ü]

From the block, I hurried down to my younger brother's school to give his project [which happened to be the school where I graduated... *shouts loud* LA COOO~!!!] ^^; Good thing it was the guard who knew me that was on duty, and he let me enter without hesitation. :D Like I was doing before, I looked at the calendar of activities, and there written:

OCTOBER 18-19
DIVISION SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE

I remembered that time, year 2005, same month. We were on the "school van" (it actually belonged to the Augustinian sisters who are running our school) on the way to the school venue and our school paper adviser (Mr. Raymond Curibang) *wow, I still remember the name!* gave each one of us an advice or two. When it was my turn to be advised, I suddenly blurted out (in Tagalog, of course, I just typed it in in English for the sake of "fourmalitea") "Sir, no more hope! I'm not really that good, you just recruited me this year! *wails*" But my sir just replied (in Tagalog) "I know you are good that's why you're here! Just remember to put a line of a song in your piece. "

A line of a song... I'm bad at music, mind you. So all those damnations, I just kept it myself, knowing that I will lose. Then we got down and everything. Contests started and all. Then we ate lunch *I'm laughing, just continue reading :wink:* at the nearby kitchenette. I ordered sinigang, my fave. We were starting to eat when I was amazed by this big, green, sliced vegetable in my dish that I gave myself a mouthful of rice with this vegetable. Guess what, my tongue IS BURNING! IT IS A BIG CHILI! Out of self-humility, I tried not to cry out and gulped a lot of cola. Sweat began to trinkle in my cheeks when a schoolmate told me, "Kuya Edward, are you ok?" Of course, I just said yes but really, my tongue is still burning until the end of the day, damn chili...

Back to the contest... Well, I was chosen to write for the English Features category. The topic ? I forgot, but i think it is about candle or light (or maybe candlelight?) I was stuck in my seat for 30 minutes, oblivious to the contest I'm into. I said, "Oh well, since I'm a newbie in the field, it's alright to lose." and I started writing "random"words for my entry. When it was done, I hurried back to our adviser and said that I don't think I will win and besides, we have a theatrical presentation the next day so I "won't hear my defeat".

The next day, evening. We are now presenting our play on the stage campus (it was so hot in the "backstage"!!!). I'm still jittering that time. Good thing I went on well. You see, I was playing the insensitive father of my "demented" kids (fitted well in me since I looked and emoted like a stick. XD ). I did well in the first half. Then curtains fall for intermission. Some announcements were made, and the van arrived home from the awarding! Noises from my schoolmates backstaged proliferated in my ear as it was announced that I bagged the second place in the said contest and will move on to the next level! I was dumbstrucked! I was like saying, "No way! I don't believe you!" And during the second half, I kind-of messed with my acting *good thing it is considerably minor* and after the show, my adviser approaced me and said, "Congratulations! You won second place!" and he showed me the medal.

During that night, I can't get off a big grin out of my face.

Back to reality!
So there, I gave my brother's project in peace, paid his monthly tuition, and I headed straight back home while reminiscing everything...

Couz's Debut

My Couz (Frances) had her debut today. Well, kind of. It was just your ordinary party. No ceremonies and all. I wanted more pictures but time did not permit us. Wahaha...

Random Crap: Why am I a Math Major?

There were six of us, and we were still young (my 3 cousins, 2 siblings, and myself). We have huge dreams back then. It is so funny that I can still recall what our grand dream was: to become doctors and build a hospital owned by the six of us. Funny, again, though, that it will happen for all of us. I guess it is an impossible dream after all...

Not knowing, I grew up very meticulous. I want everything in chaotic order (how ironical!). And here is the hilarious part: I am scared of blood and syringes! No really, laugh at me now but that's the truth. I'm sort-of blaming it as a reason for taking medicine-related courses out of my list of courses I like to take in college. Dreams shattered? Kind of... We're still young when we made that dream, it was forgotten now...

UPCAT! I don't know what to write in my choice of courses. My parents said I should take Accountancy so I followed them and wrote that down. Then I looked at the list and found nothing of my interest except Journalism and Mathematics. I just wrote down Mathematics since, I said to myself, I'm not a part of the school paper. Why Mathematics? I don't know that time... It is a big mystery to me... So I passed the form, hoping to pass UPCAT and land to the course where I should be.

But lo and behold! I was made Features editor of the school paper by the beginning of my Senior Year! I never knew I had that "talent" but I don't think I'm great. I just think of myself as a mediocre bastard being an editor because of my nonsensical doodles. [spoiler: I only took three exams out of eight throughout a year due to different contests I engulfed myself into. :D]

I was walking in the covered court when I realized that it is time for my review session for a Science Bee (know BULPRISA?) so I went to the office of my coach-mentor. To my surprise, we were talking about my future plans? I said to her I don't really know what course to take. She (my coach-mentor) told me that why shouln't I try Actuarial Science. I showed her a blank face because, in the first place, I don't know what it is, really. At that incident and moments after, I really felt blank. Is that Actuarial Science the thing for me? Is there a course in UP with that name, assuming I passed?

By the end of January, I have this feeling of doubt. I said to myself that I think I should wrote down Journalism and not Mathematics. The plain reason? I reached the Nationals of a journalism contest (Press Conference). It really crossed my mind. But only God will tell.

Then the results came out. I passed. (Hooray! :D) And my course? BS MATHEMATICS. I wanted it, I said to myself, but my enthusiasm about that is not too high. I just murmured, "Go with the flow..."

And you know what's amazing? Actuarial Science is a course in UP (Masters', in fact) which I can take up after I finished Mathematics! It's like *whoa* thanks, ma'am, now I knew my path is set! And Journalism? Nah, I forgot that thing now... I AM NOW DEVOTED TO MATHEMATICS...

KUDOS TO MATH MAJORS!!! :D

And that's my crappy answer to the question "WHY AM I A MATH MAJOR?"

1st year on dA...

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Happy Anniversary to Me!!!
It's been one year of randomness, oh my...
I'll be keeping this short. You don't want me to talk about partial derivatives and multiple integrals, will you?
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I just said that I will make a fan fiction but I guess I lack time. Maybe by the last week of October, I will submit new sets of deviations. Oh well, RANDOM-NESS!!!
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Don't hate me, PLEASE?! I just lack ideas and time, sorry. It's so hard to be a knight of Mathematics [read: B.S. Mathematics], I lack time for my other "skills". GOMEN NASAI!!!

Random Thoughts

*sigh*… It’s way back then since I last wrote a blog entry. Now, I am writing. Problem is, what to write? My first consultation? My failed exam? My perverted professor? Unexpected results? News delay?

 

Yet again… *sigh* I don’t know what to write. I don’t know obviously, do you? You might find wasting your time reading this. Anyway… to start things…

 

I LOOOOOOOOOOOVE my forehead protector! *shows forehead protector with a big grin* I wear it almost everyday as a part of my accessory and I wear it in my, well, forehead (at my neck at some instances. :D) You might say it’s kinda embarrassing to wear such stuff at a university, but I’m just saying that, “Nah… University of the Philippines [UP] students won’t care; never would!” So frantically, I was walking in every street and every lobby and riding in every vehicle and no one really cares! (except for a gal who pokes my protector when I’m wearing it, let’s just name the gal Kristin Regina Casas. :p) But then again… there are some people I’m noticing that they’re noticing my protector. [redundancy attack!]

 

At one time, when I was walking, I saw this guy flashing that big smile when he was walking towards the direction where I came from. I knew he was smiling at me because at some intimate distance, he just smiled! I “shivered” a bit, really! I never expected that! Another instance: I walked along with Cheska-sempai [from my High School] to Palma Hall [the infamous <College of> Arts and Sciences <Building>] when we came across Jamie Co [my classmate in Communications 3] with her “friend” [I guess he was her boyfriend only… CHIKA MINUTE!] who was a friend of Cheska-sempai. Of course we did the usual hi’s and hello’s but moment we walked away, that guy called and attention and said “Di ba ikaw ung sinasabi ng kapatid ko, yung may forehead protector?” [Aren’t you the one with the forehead protector my sibling told me?] I was S-H-O-C-K-E-D! I was the sublime paranoid! Thoughts of some stranger noticing me entangled my mind. Then again, I decided to shrug it off.

 

I just found a boarding house somewhere near my school. And guess what I forgot… my belt! Resourcefully stupid that I was, I used my beloved forehead protector as my belt! Too bad I can’t go around and *shing!* show it off because in the first place, it’s hidden!

 

Change topic!

 

I realized that I love Mathematics like my wife. Swear, I got secretly angry when a friend of mine somewhat said bad things about it! But the good boy that I am, I just let it slip… *sigh* the love of Math! Question is… Does Math love me? I got a 25% score from the first exam, seriously. The once patron of Math way back then is now crying over his damn sheet of paper! [pun intended]

 

But the most random of my thoughts is learning the difficult lesson of life: truth will set you free. Man, I love this someone, so forbidden. I realized I have to say it straight and may even lose our friendship! I’m crying over it these past few days! I’m going insane!

 

See, this is random… Random crap…

Pics by the Resort

Shots made at Golden Shower Resort. Ü

Shots by the Pageant

My sister's pageant. I'm to take her pictures... and mine as well... Ü

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God Gave Me A Sermon!

Sigh...

What a day it is...

Yesternight, dinnertime. We siblings ate hotdog for dinner. Each one of us has two pieces of it with rice. It just happened that it did not sufficed him so I have to give him half of mine. Because I didn't received any word of thanks, I said to him, "You didn't learned right conduct, aren't you?"

But karma is fast. It's just this morning when I stopped by SM because there is where I take a ride to my school. It just happened that I need a toilet. So I rushed to where is available: the van terminal. After what I did, the guard said something. I hurried back to know what it is. He said, "Thank you." Ashamed, I replied, "Oh, Thanks!"

I was really embarrassed. So I learned from this: (just remebered after the incident, thanks to Ate Melai for saying this to me)

Matthew 7:3

"Why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye and not see the plank in your own eye?"

It's Been a While

It's 2007 and if I'm not mistaken, this is the first time of the year that I updated my blog(s)!



Many things happened since the start of 2007 and I mostly encountered PROBLEMS!!! (they always come in bundles, you know)



1. Theater Plays: I always expected that our class will have workshops,
from the course title naming Acting Workshop. But what fell into me
were finding of pieces to be memorized and presented! Afterwards, I
find props that's very unmanageable then in the end, they will not be
used!



2. Mega Dark Valentine's Day: One, I'm single since birth. Two, we have
a Math exam that time. Three, I don't have answers. Really.



3. After-midnight Homecoming and More Theater Plays: Since we have to
pass six reaction pieces regarding theatrical plays, it just meant
THEATER MARATHON!!! It's tiring, plus one time I went home really
REALLY late...



But not all of things that came to me are problems:



1. New Internet Connection: Good-bye dial-up. Hello Broadband!!!



2. My First Birthday Party: For seventeen years of my existence, it's
just this February 15 I had a "party"!! I mean, in my consciousness,
that is...



3. Jewel Mische still Surviving: Hope she doesn't get eliminated! Vote for her!!!

http://starstruck.igma.tv/vote.php?id=3



But what will become of me?

My New Pictures

They are my new pictures, with me sporting a new hairstyle.

Read Please. Not a chainmail

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