Exclamation point to first sem.

There are so many things to blog about. So many happenings that shouldn’t be missed out to write. Finally, hell weeks are over and stress-free days are now lying ahead of me. I don’t know where I should begin, what story to tell first. Let me just recall them arbitrarily… while my brain summons up memories by chance.

To start of the issue is the UAAP 72nd Cheer dance competition. It was very tragic to spectators like me. I was anticipating that UST Salinggawi dance troupe will bag the championship pompoms or maybe if not…a runner up, I suppose. UST did a great job to amuse the audience with dreadfully inimitable stunts, though they did it with a little filth. So, my next option is UP Pep Squad since their routines were clean nonetheless simple. Surprisingly, the result was kinda altered. Don’t wanna remember it, anyway. Part of the UAAP is basketball, imagine how NU beat La Salle during their flight to final four. It was like a shocking diversity. The bulldogs were the keys of the tigers to open heaven’s gate and miraculously enter the final four. Big thanks to NU! Subsequently, as a result to that manifestation, king tiger Dylan Ababou played his last UAAP year was held the Season’s MVP and the recipient of the Jollibee Champ of the season cookie. Credits for his hard works and leadership skills! Jeric Teng, son of Alvin “Robocop” Teng was also awarded as this season’s Rookie of the year, he was splendid and played like a veteran. Congrats to them, they do deserve it.

It was this sem that I appreciated volleyball, though I was a volleyball player on my high school days since I couldn’t play my forte when intramurals come. It’s a rule that when you’re a basketball varsity, you can’t play basketball for your section. Going back, BVT Boys were impressive; it happened to start with a “framed-up” interview for our socio-com report, “how media structures the society thru sports”. After our reporting, as a token of appreciation, we treated them at KFC carpark; then we came to watch their game against UE at UE’s home court, it was a championship game. Unfortunately, they lost. Dumb referees!

Our little baby just turned 2! Ameerah is very diligent girl and we are so lucky to have her as a blessing and part of our family :)

Lets talk about UAAP once more, Ateneo and FEU get hold of the twice to beat advantage. Ateneo ranked first then followed by the Tams. FEU battled out against UE to compete for the waiting team (Ateneo) for a race to three championship match. Everyone was assuming that FEU will grab the spot, but providence isn’t the issue. Luck was on the red side that prevail them, not once but twice to secure the last seat onto the finals. It’s the absence of Barroca that pulled the tams out of their rhythm due to the jarring issue of game fixing. Warriors maybe unstoppable; But I say… that only a blue heart and an eagle spirit makes a true champion. Back to back winning championship streak for the Ateneo Blue Eagles! Hard work, discipline and perseverance really paid off. Congratulations! They did defend the crown! Jai and Rabeh bids farewell as they stepped out of the UAAP hard court limelight.

Who could forget the calamities took over the island. Ondoy and Pepeng plus Ramil downpour heavy raindrops that almost submerged some parts of the archipelago, Manila was in deep tragedy, mainly Pasig, Pangasinan and Baguio. Due to the typhoons, classes were suspended one week. Thank God that my family weren’t affected at all. After this catastrophic event that happened, I know that Filipinos did learned a lot. From bayanihan to individual realizations and paradigm that we should keep out and not to look after the material things here on earth because with just one glimpse it can all be washed out. Notice how great our God is!

Thus, a charity game was produced by Samahang Basketbolista ng Pilipinas for the benefit of the victims of the typhoon Ondoy. I was so happy, I saw Chris Tiu played basketball again. Smart Gilas vs Powerade. Gilas won by almost 20 points.

My miserable days isn’t over yet! Changed my mobile number, it wasn’t my fault! For some sort of reason…How I hated to switch contact number…

PBA 35TH All Filipino Cup opened last October 11, Smart Gilas was a guest team. Their first game was up against Burger king…that day was a heart-rending one. The fact that Tiu was on court, players were too physical in terms of their offense and deffense. Even a fan on the court side got attacked and hit by a burger king player (Arboleda). He’s a pro, so he should act like one! Wrong move for him! He got suspended the whole season and will not receive a salary.
I didn’t even know that night was my Spanish final exam…good thing that I came to school just on the nick of time. LRT find ways.

I also wanted to share...that this sem maybe a too tiring one for me but I did enjoy every experiences, sacrifices and hardworks especially doing every activities with my friends. Karla, Mari and Ian thank you for making this sem a remarkable one. I just hope that we could treasure our lasting friendship lifetime. Maybe we have faults and misunderstandings but I know that we can stand out through all of it.
Go Divas :)


That’s all I could have off path. Memory loosen up fast!!!

MY FIRST NSTP - LTS TRIP :) LAB-7

I opened the doors of the month of September doing a good deed. It is indeed good haha for i came to help and teach a kiddo hundred miles away from home. Am I only exaggerating or am I just blaping? none of those of course! It was my first NSTP - Literacy Training Service trip and was also my first journey to Nueva Ecija. The weather wasn't really going our way, rain continues to fall from the sky.

I woke up early 3am but sleep in the sofa again for 30 minutes. I took a bath 4am and fix my things after i dressed up and left the house around 5:30am.
Call time is at 6am as to my bad habit and not "so" usual thing that happened i arrived at exactly 6:47am that made me realized what delay did i cause!!! I was the only student they're waiting for their departure. The time i stepped in the bus, we left 6:48am. I'm feeling really sorry for what happened, and I promise, I'll try not to do that again, or else I'll be left behind!



Stop over at Lapaz gasoline station for nature calling, 8:39am. I haven't ate anything since the time I woke up. So, I decided to go down the bus and buy something (Kirei, junk-food). Long trip means long sleep....... so cold in the bus! GRABE!

Arrived Nueva Ecija at 10:48pm
Epesa Elementary School.......
I was overwhelmed looking at those simples smiles welcoming us with drum and lyre accompaniment. Then, the speeches of both parties, after the rights and ceremony...we didn't waste time and start to partake responsibilities. Our group was disbanded because we're too many. I was in-charge to teach a grade 5 student. I met John Carlo, he's a quiet type of kid who's very obedient and shy. He's easy to get along with cause he knows how to answer me. We finish our paper works fast but smooth, so we can go out and play and take pictures with everyone :)
I got a chance to give him something, ice cream! john is very happy with an ice cream... After the bonding moments, John was lost out of my sight then found him at my side holding a letter, expressing his appreciation and thanking me for buying him an ice cream... i was very touched! that almost made me cry! I hugged him tight and Sir revil accused me of child abuse..haha! Pasalubong pipino- a form of their pasasalamat to us!



Time to go back to Manila 1:48pm
Movie time again... we watched A walk to remember, walang kamatayang One More Chance and i forgot the title of the last film. Stop over at Mega-Caltex, I bought Jollibee Spaghetti..hehe... then road trip again...Good thing, sir revil opened the t.v. and watch UAAP!!!!that i was waiting for! exit NLEX 4:25pm

Arrived at UST around 6pm.
A very tiring trip but fun and touchy.

Til'next trip... :)

The most important thing that I've learned during my trip to Epesa Elementary school, Nueva Ecija is to
thank God for all the blessings he have showered upon me. I should appreciate every single even little things
that God is giving me. Iám very blessed and lucky in my life that I must be contentented for me to be happy
because my student John Carlo showed me how to appreciate things that came in my way bad or good...
for all we know God knows best and theres a reason for evrything.

I now have a better view of how valuable education is, because its our key for our future and that's the only
thing we can treasure for a lifetime that no one or nobody could get from ourselves.

I appreciate all my groupmates and LTS mates since at first they patiently waited for me. IM VERY SORRY. Promise,
I'll try not be late anymore. For those who gave me food cause I have no baon.

We must extend a helping hand to anyone who needed it, without asking any in return.

I'll study harder and won't waste anything for something that's not needed, because I realized the difference
of the phrase Ï wanted to Ï needed". Think twice!

In this trip there are alot of moments to cherish, that I hope could last and follow onto next sem. :)

An Overdue entry

This has been a looooooong out dated blog that I’ve been longing to post. I’m somewhat busy doing field assignments and preparing for preliminary examination for this semester. Since, today is national heroes’ day meaning holiday implying no classes! Wheew!!! Lucky break for relaxation, well at least just for 24 hours I could most likely forget the hassles and pressures of school works and school activities. My major subjects were very interesting for me and I kinda like all of it, even though I’m getting tired of accomplishing the requirements of each. TV production makes my life dead beat and worn out but it was cool producing shows. Haha. I couldn’t forget the show ‘bus ni tomas’ were I was told to be the segment cameraman and I had so much fun working with 3CA1 segment people, we did go to La loma, Pateros and Navotas to come up with something nationalistic focusing on Filipino delicacies. Advertising and Marketing are almost alike and I think it’ll be very useful for business minded people, more on recitations and reporting in front of class with your power point presentation accompanying you. Socio Com and Script writing merely readings still I enjoy studying the topics proposed. Script writing is full of film reviews and movie watching. Needless more to say about the happenings on school, I prefer much on my social life. Hehe.

One factor about this overdue entry is my virus-habited laptop. I just got my laptop from acer service center that cost me 1,500 pesos!!! Damn, I lost all my files!!! I couldn’t recover any of it. Good thing I have my USB on my side, quite a relief.

The weather wasn’t fine here in the p.i. it was irrepressible, it changes fast from humid to warm then it will later on rain hard without heaven giving any inkling suspicion in the sky.

Watching basketball games especially UAAP live or telecast, lightens up load to my sadden atmosphere. Were you informed that former Pres. Cory Aquino died this month of August? Sure everybody knew about it. She was popular being the mother of democracy and her favorite color is yellow! Hehe

By the way, prelim week is over and exams were given back…results went well. I passed all my subjects. Haha. Cheers for that!

There’s a lot of many comings and goings that I definitely missed out writing here. This site was supposedly my online diary. Right??? I just wish that I could remember and note down all of them.

Ok, I’ll stop. Till next entry! So Long….  then lets talk about Hoops!!!! haha

Powerhouse Production

Working with 3CA1., we'll its the first time for me to had a chance to work with them. One of my major class was TV Production, where we got to experience the life on and off the camera. the first pick was having a public service show. just like the UNTV shows. it was good cause my groupmates was good and responsible in doing production staff. i also contributed but not a big part, given that im an irregular student. i wanted to get a big role but they wouldn't give me one haha...yeahyeah i know, the reason...irregular means irresponsible... haha

its not that, they dont get chance to know me haha. maybe because when im with them im quiet and didn't speak much.

Though, I wanted to thank them for letting me be a part of this production. They were superb, i can say. some of them have lots of experiences working on and off cam.

NOT FEELING WELL

it was just last week that i had a bad feeling., experiencing high fever with a temperature of 39.8 and it absolutely made my week terrifying. my body was not in good condition to resemble stuffs. the "not feeling weell" thing started last wednesday, where i had to attend classes and not only minor but major class, not that i want to attend but i needed to...that day day was a hell day because i had to take 3 quizzes., 2 minors and in advertising major. i was very ill and feeling cold.. so i had to borrow a jacket to feel a bit relief. That day, I texted all my friends. A guy replied and asked me, what kind of jacket I needed. And I texted him back and said that anything will do. He told me to go to the gym and get the jacket from him, there I went then he handed me his nike jacket. I was touched that even though he's very busy, he made time to lend a jacket for me....A big thanks to Dylan Ababou, he's really a nice friend of mine. :)

RE: A VERY SPECIAL GIFT TO MY 24TH

YES! 'Almost' everyone in town we're unlimited or neither should i say have loaded just to great christiu thru fanatxt or maybe in his blogsite.

this is going to be a late reply about "a very special gift to my 24th"...i dont know why it strucked me. i was hit when chris wrote this: "I honestly thought that once my stint with the Blue Eagles is done, you'd be all gone as well! Kidding!" then there i was reminiscing his basketball career....How I miss Chris playig hoops!

Does Chris Tiu still need something?! i doubt!

Lets just support him all the way!

which is which: he or he? (AN EXCERPT)

This is long so if you’d like to proceed on the GUY CLUES start at paragraph four. Read within the context of “Flailing” ha.

Call it a mental dysfunction or better yet, if you’re the "idiom" type, hitting two birds with one stone. Not that I have suddenly turned into a runny nosed, perpetual cadaver killed by hopeless romance, who has a vague admiration towards two men. The operative word here is obviously, “two”. But insane as I may be, contrary to perception, I think I am at this sane point in my life wherein I actually know what I want. If that doesn’t sound clear, consider it part of this muddled, routinely futile situation I put myself in every time.

The great thing about these two guys is how opposite they seem to be – literally and figuratively. Polar opposites if I may add. Put them side by side and you have a dazzling display of contrasts – their facial nuances, aura, propensities, smile, and look. One thing similar between them though which I gravitate towards is how seemingly dislocated they are in their world – in more pedestrian terms: may sariling mundo. I don’t know which hormone to blame na.

Guy number one is someone I really had no idea I would’ve liked. I’ve known him for quite a while yet I never really took notice of him since I always adhered to the principle or idea, “classmates are off limits/classmates are like siblings”. Now, I totally ditched those ideals. So much for loyalty. Essentially, what this guy does to me is different than most other guys I’ve been unfortunate enough to only grasp at a distance. He’s definitely not hot. He’s not handsome. He’s not a dashing prince. Physically speaking, he’s not someone I’d ever hit on based on “high school standards”. But obviously, I’ve finally taken notice of him and his smile – the sweet outstretch of his mouth, the come-hitherness that follows and the subsequent transformation of M the gay guy to M the milquetoast. He’s candid and camp – in a good way. He’s very self-assured and unafraid to poke fun at himself. He’s confident definitely, a man with a vague ambition and self-deprecating humor. He’s strangely confusing. It’s precisely because he’s everything I would never like in a guy, that I like him, exposing a sort of reverse psychology applying to me. And it’s this abrupt gear shifting in guy standards which suddenly turns me into a wondering philosopher, creating existential questions, either directed to him or to me or both. He makes me question what I really look for in a person and reevaluate my place in the universe - OA.

So now a shift in paradigm is needed in order to appreciate the full content of this blog – moving away from the M the Head Bitch in Charge, to M the unfocused lamb.

This though, in the light I’ve resigned myself partially to being single for a surprising period of my life. So yeah, that’s mostly how it’s working.

Guy number two is someone I just had the opportunity to know. For some strange reason I actually think I’ve seen him before but who cares. I’ve always been off limits to guys with girlfriends as well not because they presented twice the futility. It’s just a thing okay, a non-fetish. No I am not Katrina Halili who finds men with girls challenging or tempting. I find men who are married more tempting. It’s me, Monica Lewinsky. Ha. But this case is an exception to the broken rule. Like I said, he’s the opposite of guy number one. He’s a lot more serious, self-effacing, and introspective of course. He’s more of my usual type – really boy-next-door-ish, with an incredibly sexy smile and funny idiosyncrasies. He’s got beautiful, full red lips, and an endearingly unexpected accent. There’s a cloud of mystery surrounding him all the time, questions raised regarding religious beliefs, firm assertions and deliberations on whether he is cute or hot or plain both. There’s sensuality in him I haven’t seen yet in any guy from AB, a ravishing grin that melts my heart into puddles of glitter, a wicked, even lonely stare which resembles the old faith we once had on pagan gods. He’s really gwapo in the traditional sense, a bit maangas but still able to come off humble.

Guy Number 1 is a Koala. Guy Number 2 is a Snake. Guy #1 is the song "Melt Away", while Guy #2 is the song, "When I Saw You". They have different religions I think.

That’s basically it. No I’m not torn between to lovers even though for several years I’ve wished to be in that awkward position in my life. It’s a questionable wish I know but one that’s been closely realized (even if it’s not exactly between two lovers) by this magnetic and dynamic event called university life and love.

Crushes are truly non-threatening, lightweight matters of the heart. But given the choice, I’d prefer a life over a lovelife. Seriously


love you MARI. aka JOMA...bwahahaha