i am 72% Happy and i'm an invisible ex

You Are 72% Happy

You are a very happy person. Generally, you feel content and that all is right with the world. Occasionally, you have a down day - but you have the ability to pick yourself right back up.

You Are An Invisible Ex

You're so over your ex, you hardly even remember you have an ex You prefer leave all of the baggage behind you - far, far behind As they say, indifference is the opposite of love!

revisiting LCC-Caloocan and more...

last monday (nov 26), i went to la co (my high school) to judge the speech choir competition the english department spearheaded. sir rey binuya invited me two weeks ago. actually, ms. arcadio, now the HS assistant principal, was incessantly inviting me to grace their leadership seminars. too bad i was occupied with academic obligations then.

sir rey asked me to be at the school 7.30 am but because i didn't know what hairstyle i would wear, i left our house 7.30 am and arrived there quarter to eight. mrs. gonzalez and ms. nocum (she's not miss anymore) welcomed me as i was gesturing to the guard that i was needed inside. i thought the contest was at the AVR or gym but no, the event was a culmination activity so it was held at the quadrangle. there were no classses as all students filled the quadrangle, occasionally going on the side when drizzle would say hi.

i was with michelle go (2003) and marianne brown (2005), that made me angelo (2004). oops, it' s ramon. haha... it just felt strange that everybody was calling me ramon. i was welcomed by my smiling ex-teachers. i was so excited and happy to meet them again. even kuya raymond, the utility assistant, recognized me.

after the activity which lasted until twelve noon, i went to the faculty room. i was to type 'center' because it's called FC in UP. i met hordes of familiar and not-so-familiar faces. my former teachers were greeting me, even my grade school teachers. whenever they would ask how am i, i would drop the lessons they taught us. example, for grade 6 filipino ms. maslog (who's no longer miss as well), i joked: ma'am, pag-uulat ng liban (ma'am, attendance reporting?) as that was one of her routines during the sixth grade. for ms. anselmo (who is four months pregnant), i asked her: so, how's the mole and the balancing?. another was mrs. obispo, my 2nd and 4th year filipino teacher, who's now back in teaching 2nd year. i teased her if she still requires her students to memorize stanzas from Florante at Laura... hehe

it was actually ma'am lanuza who invited me to go to the faculty room after my function as judge. there i met another new teacher who heads the media club and is inviting me to conduct a seminar for their members. she asked me to draft my plans and submit it to her to craft a formal proposal.

it's also amazing that almost all of them has seen me in KNN. and because of that, i am inspired to pursue my media career. this gives me the thought of leaving my present job (haha... i'm just in my second week) and apply for the broadcast station. incidentally, in one of my other functions in UP, i had a brief talk with Sir Avecilla (we're part of a committte which he heads). i must admit, i avoided sir avecilla in my four-year (oops, make that three and a half. haha) stay in cmc because of the labels students give him. but when he asks me about my plans, he seconded the inspiration my HS teachers gave me. it was not that rhetorical or challenging, but sir somehow restores the media idealism a certain entity robs from me. anyhow, this is another blog entry.

stay tuned if i'll leave my present job. =)

now working

i started joining the workforce already last monday (nov. 19). i was looking forward to this day when i am doing something that is little different from what i studied and am studying in college and doing in the side. media is so frustrating after all (oh this is entirely a new, blog-worthy story). probably, i just didn't want to burn myself out so i am branching out to another realm. the job was on a night shift, something call center-ish so i really had a major adjustment. the shift is from 8pm to 5am but starting tuesday, shift will become 10pm-7am. first week was training and we had day off on thursday since it was thanksgiving day in the US, where our clients are. i don't make calls here for the record, i do some document analysis and data entry and math! oh yes, after a three-year math hiatus, i am finally back to utilizing my once-upon-a-time favorite subject. actually, when i took the entrance exam for this job, i found the math written test the easiest compared to the aptitude and reading comprehension tests. i also underwent a total of four interviews before i got this job so i am compelled to love this position. haha... anyhow, the competitive me wants to achieve something before i march on aproil 2008. if plan b happens, hello media world would be my drama. otherwise, i will continue being here. so far, i'm liking what i'm doing. it's just that i'm losing track of my dates and days. this is all for now. good luck to me. =)

with KX peeps (tin, danz, hanna)

blogging for a year already

OMG! I’m blogging for a year already. Just saw my sidebar and saw those two November’s. Indeed, time flies fast when… well, I’m really not having fun because I cannot sustain my blogging due to slow connection. Haha… again, this is the topic. So obvious that I have hordes of angst for this internet connection. I have plan of subscribing to that PLDT DSL plan where landline and internet are packaged together for a thousand pesos monthly. But I’m having second thoughts because I might not be able to maximize it as I only have a subject left for second sem. And I might have an internet connection, a faster one, in my job. Oh yes, I’ll be working. I promised this to myself that last semester of my last college year, I’ll be working. For the record, a Broadcast Communication student is supposed to take 18 units for this sem but because I took classes every summer since birth, I was able to advance subjects. Well, most of us. It’s just so OA that I advanced the most. But yes, I still have social life. It’s just that I don’t want to be idle for the two-month summer period. A week or two of rest for me is fine already, and in that time I’m assuring you that I already accomplish everything that I want to do every break, including my favorite of them all—socializing. Haha… So as you notice, I really don’t have coherent thoughts here. I just want to share everything that crosses my mind. =)

I'm so back.

I really want to blog and share my experiences and thoughts since my life has been an open book. But some forces hinder this moment, such as the stuttering internet connection we have. We only have this unlimited dialup of PLDT so every opening of site is such an excruciating experience, especially opening Multiply where almost all of my friends hang out electronically. Sometimes, even the very basic Yahoo mail fails and I end up talking with the computer, pleading and pseudo-crying. I’ve said once that an un-updated blog is not worth visiting. This is the reason why I don’t advertise or append my site anymore in YM status or to outgoing emails.
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Anyway, so the second sem starts. And I only have BC 200 (Thesis) as my subject. I don’t have to go to school anymore because this is on a consultation basis with one’s adviser. I’m lucky to have Ma’am Pearl as my thesis adviser, I’m a minor in Manalili already with 15 units of Broadcast subject with her as the professor (BC 103-Radio Writing, BC 123-TV Writing, BC 185-Broadcast Research, BC 199-Thesis Proposal and the culmination BC 200-Thesis). My thesis is the DZMM TeleRadyo. Shame on you if you don’t know this. Anyhow, I’ve finished the data gathering and the transcribing of the interviews I did with the DZMM TeleRadyo officials and personnel. It has been super fun visiting DZMM from time to time. I met lots of stars including the father of Kokey and Angel Locsin.
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Something came up, I'll continue this post. Hehe... =)