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[Monday
December 3rd, 2007
4:10am] |
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oooh... i just realized kung gano nga ako ka bipolar. read my sept 24 entry (some of you cant pala cause naka for friends lang sya) but anyhoo, eto ung gist, DEPRESSED AKO. haha dude, that was 2 months ago... i was super down and now im supah high. shit na realize ko kabilis talaga mag change ng evrything. i hope this happiness will not change and disappear that quickly. *cross fingers*
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| kalipayan |
[Monday
December 3rd, 2007
3:51am] |
it's been more than a month since my last post and since then, a lot has changed. the sembreak was a blast. it was really chill. sad part was that i had to see cria everyday, hahah kidding! since it was just me, cria and cait in davao, we were stuck with each other! but its orayts, still love 'em beatches. =)
ever since school started, i havent been studying :( im so patapon na. its like im still on sembreak mode and its starting to scare me na cause im cramming two labreports due in like 3 hours plus a long quiz. craaaap. life is so much fun with school. feel the sarcasm??
so, things have changed. things are way way way way better nowadays. even though school sucks, all the rest is a-ok. i love it. im so happy He answered my prayer, He gave me back the happiness that i was so deprived of for the past year. damn, cant believe that ive been messed up for almost a year. but its ok. learned A LOT from it. and now i am happy. enough said. i hope this will last thought, sana nga forever na. someone told me kanina that she's never seen me this happy before and that me happier. and another thing that makes me happy pa is when i see other people happy, when their faces light up.. priceless. especially when that person rarely smiles to the world and to others, priceless indeed.
so mao to siya, lipay ko, klaro ba?? unta ang uban tawo sad kay malipay. kibaw man ko na kaning lipaya nga ni kay naay chance nga di mudugay ug naa say chance nga mawala ra human kasakit ang mupuli.. pero cge lang, kung ing-ani ba naman ko kalipay, ngano man diay? ive been through shit before.. pero ga ampo ra gihapon ko nga kaning lipaya nga ni kay dli jud mawagtang, dli unta mawagtang tungod sa oras, distansya ug sa mga tawo. kung ang mga tawo kay dili mapahimutang tungod ani akong sitwasyon, ok ra, kasabot man ko. unta lang hatag ra mo ug tiwala sa ako and if ever na mahitabo ang inyung gina ingon, im not gonna say nga wala ko ninyo gi-warningan.. siguro kinahanglan lang jud nako ma experience first hand. i guess ingana ra jud ko nga tawo, i love experiencing anything and everything, right? para sa mga naka-ila nako, kibaw baya mo ani. and, ingana ra man jud cguro ang kinabuhi no? experience ra jud sa! kay kung di, wa tay matun-an. na tiwas kung ing-ana. cge, sakit man, pero mutuo man jud k0 nga naa tay makuha nga maayo from it, dili ra siguro right after dayon pero naa na... tiwala ra. pero bottomline bai, lipay kaayu ko and ga ampo ko ug maayo nga hantud na ni sa hantud.
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| home? |
[Wednesday
October 17th, 2007
9:50am] |
so, im going back to davao tonight. gonna catch the 7pm flight. it feels weird. i mean, ever since the last 3 weeks of classes, especially during finals, i kept on saying that i wanted to go home na pero now that im about to... im scared of being bored in davao. hahah im kapoy of hearing drama sa balay. kapoy maminaw ug mga away2. mbot... i mean, yeah, i know nga home man ghpon nako na but then.. i think 1 month's gonna be overkill. oh yeah and im pretty sure naa jud nay time nga grabe mi ka mag lalis sa akung inahan ana... tiwas. wala jud ko katilaw nga muuli ko nga chill lang... naa jud nay mahappen. pero im excited to see my tors mehn. grabe 5 months mi wala nag kita and as usual i bet mag tambay ra mi sa balay then mag talk till forever. i also cant wait to go to seyyybboooo with sila cria and cait.
basta... bottomline, im half happy and half sad... weird lang. i think usahay ma happy pa ko here in manila... hahah pero sad ra sad kay tanan tawo nanguli sa ilang mga probinsya... hahah but thinking bout it, dude, i need sad to be away uy... i dont want the second sem to arrive pa. kapoy pa. chill sa...
oh and of course, imma miss.... hahah (kamo na bahala mag guess kung kinsa na or unsa na...)
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| letter by a LaSallian |
[Wednesday
October 3rd, 2007
10:21am] |
Letter from a LaSallian
Please stop embarrassing the Green Community. We won the game. Let us bask in the glory of the win. We deserve that. But with that "intelligent" attempt to put the opponent down with a "well-executed attack", we are simply bringing more criticism to De La Salle. It was an interesting piece of information, that's a given. Many of us probably believed it could finally put an end to the "stereotyping" Lasallians have been up against since time began. But folks, information like that is tricky. Especially when we use it as ammo to shoot down an opponent.
When I saw that banner raised up tonight, all I could think was, "I hope this is backed up. I hope this info is ironclad. Para walang masabi hindi lang ang Ateneo kundi pati ang ibang universities. " I feared that though the shot was heard LOUD, we were only loaded with but a noisy blank bullet. I would never want anybody (not just Ateneans) to think we simply found some statistics that happened to work to our favor, had them printed out on a giagantic tarpaulin banner, and expected that no one would look it up and RESEARCH the information' s origins and bases. So I did precisely that.
Unfortunately, we may have worked against ourselves tonight, my dear Lasalle brothers. The THES-Q's rankings is, ultimately, a guide for prospective students around the world in considering universities: "Rankings can assist your decision-making process if used properly, but they must be FULLY UNDERSTOOD, or they could lead you to miss the very institution that is right for you." It is definitely NOT for bragging rights, because the statistics they collated have absolutely NOTHING to do with how academically adept its students are (it doesn't prove one's students and alumni smarter than the other's, so to speak). "It is natural to approach any university ranking on the basis that it genuinely reflects the RELATIVE strengths of the institutions covered. But, it is vital to remember that all rankings select their own methodology and individual evaluation criteria on which to base the ranking. It is recommended that you are clear about what is important to you at your prospective university. If one of your priorities is extracurricular opportunities, for example, a standard ranking is unlikely to include this as one of the chosen criteria. In other words, we are stronger in some areas...but they are stronger in others. It's simply no gauge of who's better. It's just about who's better in WHAT.
Now for the wake-up call:
Here is how DLSU fared in stats, namely, Peer Review/ Recruiter Review/ International Faculty/ International Students / Student Citations / Faculty Overall:
10.4
32.0
1.2
0.5
26.1
0.0
for ADMU:
3.6
37.8
6.8
6.2
18.2
0.0
For educated people, are we not supposed to take all considerations in context, and look beyond the major statistic? Are we not contradicting ourselves when we unabashedly proclaim that 2 is more than 3 in this case, when they can easily throw the logic back at us with all the categorized statistics here (which disappointed me a lot! ADMU's is easily more attractive to foreign students when broken down!). "Just because a university comes out very well in a ranking, doesn't mean that it is equally good in all subject areas." - AYUN. SAPUL NA SAPUL TAYO. ARE WE GOING TO WAIT FOR AN ATENEAN TO POINT OUT THE OBVIOUS TO US?
I just find it very unbecoming that in our haste to retaliate (and to what? to "Wrong Spelling" and "Suspended"? ), we grabbed the first thing that had our name on it without double-checking if the credit is solely ours. In our attempt to put them down, we have just managed to bring attention to our weaknesses! I'm proud of my school, of my Lasallian heritage, and of today's win, but WE CAN DO BETTER THAN THAT. And for a community who wants to break free from stereotyping, aren't we doing the exact same thing to the Ateneo boys we mentioned, like LA Tenorio, Ford Arao, etc., in undermining their intellectual ability? Ateneo has been known to kick players out of the team due to academic deficiencies, to provide one-on-one tutoring and to NOT give special treatment to student athletes. I know this because my best friend was a professor to a number of student-athletes. Unfortunately for us, credibility in this area is on the Ateneo's side.
Bottom line? The "prized" statistic we emblazoned on that banner is nowhere near objective, simply because it was created to be SUBJECTIVE. It is not even "timeless" like we claim! Please, my dear La Salle brothers, let us be vigilant about what we put out there. Because in the same way that we speak about our preference to La Salle, to some, Ateneo is on top. Let us respect that. Both are good universities that make the country proud. Let us leave it at that.
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