Done with Math 17 Midterm Exam!!!

    Next: Econ 11 2nd Long Exam... tsk tsk tsk... Then the paper for Art Stud 1... Then Physics 10 2nd Long Exam... then... then...

    Oh well, that's life. I wonder when I could possibly sleep all day long. These are the times that makes you want to go back to summer... when you could afford to be a couch potato. Hay... I just hope I did well on that dreaded Math 17 Midterms. God bless us all... (Go Math 17 students!)
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 Side Story
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Last Tuesday, we didn't have class for Physics 10. Why? My prof was all wet because of the rain and he can't do the demo for that day (ELECTRICITY required). Anyway, that was a very good excuse for him to not have classes. (Kasing tamad ko ata siya, mas tamad pa ata.) But the good thing was (pampalubag loob), he stayed there and talked about lots of stuff even after he dismissed the class because some people decided to stay. (YES! A LOT OF TIME TO SPEND IN THE AIR CONDITIONED ROOM! I took a nap... yehey...)

Na-HOT SEAT tuloy siya. Oh boy, he has lots of stories. CHISMIS, you can call them. About former classmates who are now famous... haha... tsk tsk... But the part that I was racked with was when he talked about leaving UP. Leaving teaching, more specifically.

Nakakapanghinayang. To have such a good prof leaving a job that seems to be tailor-made for him. He didn't state directly, but it (99% sure) sounded like he's also leaving the country. Another Pinoy Physicist involved in brain drain? I agree. It's a very bad scenario. I believe he has valid reasons but... sayang. He could have inspired people here, in the very land that has witnessed him grow into a very respectable man, a very respectable teacher. He's been educated by UP from undergrad to his PhD for crying out loud! Oh, the irony. He could have stayed in the Philippines at the very least. But he has plans already and that is hard get over with. All along I thought, this guy has the philosophies that defied convention, that didn't give in to pressure. Guess I was wrong. Favorite prof ko pa naman 'yun lokong 'yun. (Ok, favorite ko na talaga ang Physics since high school dahil favorite ko rin ang teacher ko noon, pero added factor rin na siya yung prof ngayon) Tsk tsk... I'm not mad at the guy. I just feel that he'd be a great loss.

Bakit naghihirap ang Pilipinas?
Kasi maraming tao ang naiipit sa mga sitwasyong ganito.
Kasi may problema ang lipunan na ayaw nating tingnan mabuti.
Kasi di tayo napapamahalaang mabuti.
Kasi wala tayong pakialam.
Kasi masyado tayong personal mag-isip.

E di ba kaya di nagtagumpay ang mga pag-aalsa noong panahon ng Espanyol (kaya 300 taon tayo nasakop) e dahil masyadong personal ang mga dahilan ng  pag-aalsa? Kesyo pinatay ang kapatid kaya mag-aalsa, kesyo ayaw sumali sa polo y servicio, kesyo kung anu-ano. Sino lang ba ang nag-isip na mag-rebolusyon dahil sa nasa isip na niya ang konsepto ng isang bansang Pilipinas? Si Diego Silang, malapit na. Nung kay Andres Bonifacio lang talaga nagsimula 'yun e. Tapos maraming pang gagong Pinoy. Dating rebolusyonaryo, pagdating ng mga Kano (pati Hapon) e bumigay din. 'Yung tipong sila pa ang tumugis sa kapwa nila!

Ayun. Ganun. (Paboritong linya ng KAS1 prof ko.)

Ngayon, ganun pa rin. Gusto nating umunlad ang Pilipinas, pero nauunahan ang hangaring iyon ng mga personal nating pagnanais na umunlad. (OMG, like that's so lalim na like a balon!)

Totoo naman e. Sinong sisisihin? Tayo. Tayong lahat. Lalu na ang mga tao na may magagawa naman dapat e di naman ginagawa.

Nag-aaral pa ako. Sa UP, paaral ng mamamayang Pilipino. Sana di ko kainin lahat ng sinasabi ko ngayon. Dr. Somintac, sorry. Kahit idol kita e di pala kita idol sa lahat ng pagkakataon. Ayoko talagang umalis ng Pinas e. Sana e mapanindigan ko.

Sa ngayon***

Uhm... Mag-aaral ako ng mabuti. Sana.

    How well do people work with time pressure?

    Cramming. I've been doing that since elementary. I thought I could avoid it in college... but no!
    There was this project, a documented essay. The other sections had the due date at the end of the semester. Well, our section had to pass last Monday! Ours is shorter though, but still, it needed a lot of research. So I thought I can still research for a long time. I wanted my essay to be an "uno". But, I don't know what happened to that thing. I worked at it for less than a week. Very bad. I guess I have to do something about this.

    Guess what, I was 30 minutes late for one 8am class yesterday. First time I was that late. I OVERSLEPT! Why? I'm note sure. My alarm clock (cellphone) didn't work, darn that thing. I swear I slept early. Perhaps I was just so tired. Things are starting to get heavy... Need more focus.

    Time to study.

It's been raining hard again. Glenda is going out of the Philippine jurisdiction, but she's still tagging along rains...

July 24, 2006 [Monday]- State of the Nation Address
Chancellor Sergio Cao suspended classes in UPD a day before. Later that day (July 23), Malacanan suspended classes in Metro Manila because of typhoon Glenda. I thought my friends in UPM would die of envy... hehe... but no, they got lucky.

July 25, 2006 [Tuesday]- CHED suspended classes in Metro Manila
Still because of typhoon Glenda. But at 1:00am, while I was busy killing myself with lack of sleep, a friend told me that the suspension was still debatable... that UP didn't always follow CHED (according to an e-mail sent to her by some crazy woman). Dang, how could UP not follow a CHED ruling in this kind of situation?! At any rate, I didn't go to school. No one probably went to kill themselves with rain. The teachers wouldn't go to school, I could swear. If I was wrong, demmet. Magrarally na ako next SONA.

July 26, 2006 [Wednesday]- I'm posting this thing. I have classes, yahoo! Finally after so long a wait. But I only have 1 class today and that's PE at 10am-12pm. Anyway, at least I would go to school.

I miss school. Actually I wanted to go to school for the last 2 days... It's just that when they announced that classes in all levels were suspended, I already went about to spend my time surfing the 'net. I didn't study for an exam that was supposed to be given yesterday so the suspension was practical... haha... I was going to study until I heard in the news that classes were suspended! :D

The very long weekend is finally over... but hey, a friend just told me that I still have to catch the early news later... because they might suspend classes AGAIN. Demmet. I want to go to school.