New Year Overnight Blues

January 2, 2012, 03:03 AM. 'Yan ang kasalukuyang petsa at oras nang simulan ko ang entry na ito. Kasalukuyan ding gumagawa kami ng assignment para sa aming subject mamayang 08:30 ng umaga. Meron nga rin palang test sa parehas na subject.

New Year's Day... ang araw na ito ay nagdaan lang kahapon, parang hindi man lamang naramdaman ng bumulaga sa amin ang sandamakmak na gawaing paaralan na dapat ay nuon pa namin ginawa. Ngunit panu nga namin ito magagawa nuon kung nuon ay nakatuon kami sa rason ng munting bakasyon na ito? Hindi ba't kaya tinawag na break ito ay para matigil muna sa nakakapagod at nakakastress na school work at magenjoy muna kahit sandali? Problem sets, research paper, oncoming quizzes... ano pa ang saysay ng break kung kinakailangan mo ding gawin ang mga ito imbes na magpahinga at magenjoy?

Sana tinanggal na lang nila yung break at ang walang pasok lang ay sa araw ng Pasko, araw ni Rizal, at January 1, para at least mas mapaaga ang tapos ng klase at mas mahaba ang summer break.

Ay, may OJT na nga pala kami sa summer...

Reverse Psychology

Tsk, katatapos lang ng madugong midterms. Pero may nalaman akong malupit na katotohanan na alam kong madalas na nangyayari sa mga paaralan ngayon.

Siguro naman alam niyo na ang mga katagang ito: "Kayo ang gumagawa ng grades niyo..." Isa itong malaking tae ng toro. Namulat ang aking mata dahil sa isang pangyayari kung saan humarap ako sa isang pagsusulit na naglalamang enumeration na 60 items. Dammit, sixty items!?

Sa totoo lang, hindi naman ako magrereklamo kung may natutunan ako. Hindi ba dapat ang mga propesor ang nagtuturo sa mga estudyante, hindi mga kapwa natin estudyante? Ok, alam kong minsan eh dapat magsarili tayo pagdating sa pag-aaral, pero hindi makatarungan na hindi ka na magtuturo at hahayaan mo na lang ang mga estudyante ang mangapa. At hindi mo masasabing nagtuturo ka kung pati ang nagtuturo ay hindi alam ang kanyang sinasabi! Biruin mo, nagtanong lang kung bakit ganito ang ganyan, ang sagot eh hindi niya alam dahil mga scientist lang ang may alam nun?

Kaya nahinuha ko na minsan, hindi tayo ang gumagawa ng ating grado, minsan, binabalik lang natin ang binigay sa atin ng ating mga propesor...

In Memoriam

I woke up yesterday as usual, worrying about school and the incoming Midterms week. Since I'm late, I just opened my inbox without really reading them. And so, rushing towards the university, I readied myself for another onslaught of student life, thinking how troublesome it is.

And then a shock presented itself to me in a form of another text message, telling me that I will never receive again any message from the person the message is talking about. Not quite ready to believe, I scanned my messages earlier, for surely her closest friends will have sent similar texts. Well, those texts that I ignored confirmed what I was hoping to be false.

Her name is Monette (I hope she doesn't mind if I use her name), 4th year BS Psychology student in Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila. My classmate in Ramon Magsaysay High School for three years, three short years in which, together with the rest of the our section, we forged different kinds of relationships, full of laughs, tears, hopes and fears. I guess I'm not the one to say many things about her, since I'm not really close to her. A few hellos here and there whenever I saw her, a few text conversations, but nothing else. I regret that. I regret that I haven't done anything to know her more. She is making me experience and appreciate the old phrase, "Regret is always felt at the end."

How unfair it is, for one of our comrades to be taken in our midst, when her life had only just started! How unfair that she would no longer wake up in the morning, talk to her friends, worry, hope, fall in love! How unfair that the world, our world, had lost a wonderful person! How unfair...

Yet, I was reassured by her last group message that I sadly have deleted. "Everything happens for a reason." I feel she wanted us to know that everything's going to be fine, that whatever happens, we will always be connected by bonds stronger than the strongest of metals. That wherever she may be, she will always be in our hearts.

Goodbye and thank you! Revel and enjoy in the Kingdom of God!

New Year, New Challenges

Tomorrow's June 6, yay, the start of a new semester!

Well, I'm pretty much excited, especially when I realize that I have two years left in my academic journey. No, not my student life. We are still students until the end of our time.

Anyways, here's cheers to all students, new, old, and still!!!

GK The Second Coming

A new wind has blown in our group...

Yes, we are now aiming for a more sophisticated and more mature kind of group, well scratch the group, 'cause we are now officially a corporation. Yes, yes, we're still called Grupong Kul, but we are now starting to build the foundations of the mighty GKorporation. No, not the one from Tekken, that's the G Corporation. Anyways, cheers for the brighter future of GK!!!