My Nerdy Sembreak

After all of the hardships of the first sem (and some fun after the enrollment), I decided to take the rest of the week relaxing and worrying of nothing--no school burdens for now!!! ^_^
It was Tuesday, third day of freedom, when somebody knocked at my bedroom door. I rushed out, expecting somebody from our family would go in but surprisingly, it was Mark. He dropped by after going to his own enrollment. Afterwards, I was accused by him of doing a self-service. I denied it. And we went on with some stories.
"What have you been up to these days?" He asked.
"These..." I showed him all the books, notebooks and a clearbook laid beside me and I realized how nerdy I had been.
"Oh. That's pretty boring," he claimed to which I half agreed upon.
But for me, it had been normal. It was my way of passing the time besides going to the mall and surfing the net. I had been reading and writing all day.
WHAT:
+ "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding - I heard that this is a very cool book (besides the fact that it is a reference for the movie Battle Royale, which is one of my favorites) so I started reading it.
+ "NIHONGO NO DOKUGOKU" - I'm still in the process of studying the Japanese Language (and I've learned a lot so far). There are still a lot to learn about... and I had to enrich my vocabulary so I bought myself a new dictionary. THIS IS WHAT I CALL STUDYING WITH PASSION!!!
+ THE CLEARBOOK- The clearbook Mark saw was my collection of drawings. I draw when I'm in the mood of doing so.

So much for the papers around me. But to think, as opposed to how terrible I go in school, I'm not driven into the mood of frustrations and worries. I read Golding's novel without thinking of how to analyze the novel and how I would do with it on a term paper. But actually, the analysis activates automatically (maybe due to practice at school). And I go on a step by step process with my studies on Nihongo, not frustrating myself too much nor forcing myself to hasten anything!!! And, I somehow lend this day, wednesday, to any school purposes like planning my Demo Teaching and practicting some "foresight". I must expect the worst for this coming sem for all the heavy courses awaiting us.
With all the books and papers (plus a computer), aren't I nerdy this sembreak? Does this mean I miss schoolwork??
Somehow, yeah, I do.
NERD! NERD! NERD!
^_^

Examination is an Evil Word

"Okay class, we will have our final exam on (date)."
"Now, get (size of paper)."
"Please answer the following..."


These are the usual sentences and phrases that startle us everytime the teacher mentions them. Why do we get scared?
Because we aren't sure of passing the exam the teacher is about to give.
I am one of those who get really tensed everytime the teacher says such words (though sometimes I get confident to do the exam for I want to exercise my learnings.)
But, how about the teacher giving the test? Do we know how s/he feels?
This afternoon, we went to one school here in Makati to give some examination (which we made by ourselves) for a third year high school class. This is for our Assessment and Evaluation course in which we are required to test the validity of our exam (and all that blah-blah-blah's).
Before giving it, we (me and my groupmates) have undergone all the hardships just to make our examination possible to answer.
And so, as we went in, the class (a pilot section) greeted us and we gave them the papers one by one (because we had technical problems with our test papers.)
And right there and then, I figured: “Giving students an examination seems like giving them needles to chew.” I’m sort of exaggerating actually, but I could see their reactions—and add the fact that we were handing every page one by one to them (there were actually seven pages.) Imagine how many needles they chewed!!!!!
And as I stood in front, I could see who is cheating and who is already done (but too shy to give the paper to us—for, maybe, he thinks we are going to read his answers.) And when I turned to my groupmates, they were also looking at the students.
We were like gargoyles looking down upon humans as they suffer.
Now, I could feel how “evil” the students would think of you if you give them test papers to ink on. Even the way they look up on us, they seem to glare at us.
What could they have had in mind?
“This exam is crashing my brain, you bullshits.”
“Curse you for giving such difficult questions.”
“What the hell are you asking me about??? I did not read such thing all my life!!!”

There could be thousands of thoughts against us... Well, there were some who were understanding though. And believe me, it pained me to watch them do the exam myself.
But the realization here actually is that no matter what, we have to do this. There are reasons why a teacher has to give exams. And this is not to annoy students, because teachers also WORK SO HARD with exams…. You just don’t know how much we do to finish the exam. It’s a part of what the teacher need to do: to assess the student’s knowledge and skills about what they have already learn.
So, I’m very thankful for their cooperation; though a lot of them failed or almost failed which would also lead, probably, to the invalidity of our exam!!!

GMA dubs Death Note: What the Fuck?!!!

I've just read this from one forum and I got teary-eyed--because of the humor and annoyance it was bringing me at the same time!!!As a big fan of Death Note, I am reacting upon this 'pambababoy' that they are doing upon this anime...
I am actually anti-dubbed animes (though I have no choice when I watch animes in Animax with some weird accents.) and this is going too far for GMA to ruin such a very excellent anime....
Here is the line-up of upcoming dubbers so you would join my grief:
'DENNIS TRILLO just signed up a contract to do the voice of YAGAMI LIGHT.REINER CATILLO as L LAWLIET/RYUUZAKIJOLINA MAGDANGAL as MISA AMANEMARVIN AGUSTIN as MIHAEL KEEHL/MELLOPATRICK GARCIA as NEAR/NATE RIVERJENNYLYN MERCADO as NAOMI MISORAYASMIN CURDY as KYOMI TAKADA MIKE 'PEKTO' NACU as TOTA MATSUDAKEEMPEE DE LEON as RYUKBERTING LABRA as WATARIUnder negotiation pa si MIKE ENRIQUEZ as the SAKURA TV DIRECTOR. '

Terrible....
What happened to LIGHT and L?!!!! OMG!!! And RYUK?!!!! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!
This is, for them, the powerhouse cast of dubbers and for me, the craziest cast of dubbers ever!!! I have nothing against these stars.. Let's day that. Yeah, they do well in acting (I hope) and they are good-looking (I still hope) but to have them as dubbers of Death Note to make it more exciting... I don't think so....
Death Note does not need any commercialization because I believe it can do well alone without such dubbers... They may have some dubbers (which I really hope they would screen well on who FITS each character's voice) and it will be fine with me--as long as they make sure these chosen dubbers are competitive....
But still, I'm in favor of the REAL DUBBERS of Death Note... And I won't mind if GMA tagalizes this anime---as long as this is not the line up, they won't cut any scene, they translate well and hire competitive dubbers instead of commercialized celebrities.

School made me a Zombie

I was already on bed. I've decided to sleep finally after reviewing so many stuffs for tomorrow's class and exams.
But I just couldn't sleep. I really have to do something. Just when I was so ready to sleep, the ghost of my studies and obligations kept on haunting me and I just can't sleep until I go in front of the computer and do my job(s).
So here I am, finishing some business with my eyes half closed, half sleeping...
Listening to Suga Shikao as I hit the keyboard...
Trying to amuse myself once in a while by surfing (because doing my homework tends to be really boring....)
And I will then try my best to go to sleep tonight... Or so at least I hope...
Because the thought of tomorrow--school day, homeworks, exams, demo teachings---it keeps me from being under my comfortable blanket and my fat soft pillow....
DARN!!
I am totally bombarded with all these obligations!!!
I pity myself---I pity myself a lot!!! I am beginning to become thinner (I don't even know how it could still happen since I thought I'm already too thin to become so) and my eyes are in deep hollows... My veins are exposed from the skin of my hands and arms... Pale has my skin color become...
All is left to do is for me to sleep walk...
Or anything else... be confined.. due to overfatigue.. so that I can be a living (or not anymore living) proof of how college exaggerates its duty of educating students...
Well, I have to stop complaining.... As I've read from an article, I don't have to say that "I have to" because it's making my sentence a little negative.. Because it seems to say that I am just obliged to do these...
So now I will say "I want to"...
I want to finish all these home works!!!
I want to finish college!!!
I want to do well in my class!!
I want to learn!!I want to sleep now!!!---please let me sleep and quit telling me that I HAVE TO DO GOOD!!!