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Saturday, September 06, 2008

I know it's been a fun and not-so-stressful week for everyone, but let me be the KJ for now and say it wasn't for me. You guys know the [suicidal] job I took upon myself. I love EIC-ing to shreds, but the stress and pressure and work is very, uh, overwhelming, to say in an understatement. :D

Everyone's been posting "happy posts" this week. Having fun, getting rest, having loads off (we keep scoring practice time from the teachers :D )--it was only this morning I got to read. I really miss blogging, pero sa pagod wala lang talaga sa mood. But everyone's "happy posts" INSPIRED ME, so I'll tell you how my week went. Not in any order, ha. Just what comes to mind. Highlights lang.

Cantata practices. We've been having additional Youth Choir practices for the Cantata for the past few weeks, but this week we really went all out and have practices everyday for the week, except Wednesday, because that's Prayer Meeting and Wednesday Service, and Sunday, because that's, well, Sunday. :D I thought the two additional hours to the end of the day was nothing. WRONG. It might have been okay if I wasn't sick from last week, but I was, and it was really hard, coming home around 8-9pm, doing assignments and editing, na minsan nakakatamad na rin kumain. And I had a bedtime to observe because I was sick, so I really had to cram all the work. No matter how much sleep I got, kinaumagahan, I still felt bugbog all over. But I am so happy to be taking this burden for the Lord, no matter how puny this is compared to what He did for me. :D

Oh, by the way.
I would like to invite everyone to the Thanksgiving Cantata on Sunday, 5pm, at the Bible Baptist Church in Guerrero. ^_^
I was planning to post a video of one of our songs for everyone to see, pero so far there was no one who didn't have their hands full on our practices to record us. I'll try again this evening, which would be our very final rehearsal. Oh, and my dad will be doing the narration. Cripes.

Marami rin sa aming may sakit. I pray we get better for Sunday. :D

Song In. Marami at malaki yung mga problema before, like steps, and the song, but we managed to pull off another miracle by almost finishing the song. Actually, kami na lang yung hindi tapos na class, pero we have practice later today, so I hope we finish by then. I really heart Humility ;) kahit wala na kaming ginawa kundi magsigawan and mag-inisan. :)) I have an amateur video of one of our amateur practices yesterday, pero I'll see if I can get a better one later. Dalawa na utang ko. :D

Cream Silk Hair Dare. I really didn't want to go, kasi that morning, after shampooing, my hair ended up perfectly, and actually stayed that way the rest of the day. Ayokong masira nila yung hair ko!!! :)) and besides, I don't like using anything except shampoo on my hair, because too many chemicals can destroy it, kahit conditioner lang. And you should try to not wash your hair everyday, dahil napapatay ng shampoo yung natural oils ng hair mo.

Anyway, It worked for some, didn't for most. Everyone wanted the cute pins they gave away, but the resounding feedback I got from everyone was complaint. Everyone hated the maldita Cream Silk girls. Kapag pangit ka daw, parang tsinutsupe ka na lang. Pag nagagandahan sila sa yo, aartehan ka naman daw. I suddenly wanted to do it, wala lang, gusto ko silang tarayan kung tarayan nila ako, kasi pangit ako, haha! Tapos ieexpose ko sila :)). But before I could make my mind up, they were done; it was a half-day thing. Pero I swear I will make it a point to make this an against-vanity thing on Hillstar, if I can. Kung hindi pwede, which I really doubt kung payagan dahil gusto lagi kapag ganyan may positive write-up on the paper, edi dito na lang. :)) Pero I think nasimulan na nga ni Aldwin yung pagcollect ng reactions, so I hope we can go through with it.

Nasan na nga ba yung first issue??? I really owe everyone a big apology. We've gone over the deadline. But if it's not next week, first half ng third week of September. And then all the other issues will just come up after the other. It's just first-time hassle. Pero, we're getting there, I swear.

Logs. And I mean LOGARITHMS! I'm fine with logs, pero umikot yung brain ko sa natural logarithms (ln). May trip kasi si Sir Oca na magbigay lang ng sheets basta-basta. He never discusses with us, hardly at all. Ewan ko lang sa ibang section, pero sa amin wala. Nagbibigay lang siya ng solutions. And I'm the kind of person who hates solving for no particular reason at all. Yung bang hindi mo maintindihan kung para saan, at kung bakit ganun yung pagsolve, which is why I like it when we derive equations in Physics. I don't like memorizing steps, kasi kung naiintindihan ko naman kung bakit, common sense lang, hindi na kailangan ng memorization. I have nothing against Sir Oca :D but I just wish he'd get to spend more time in class (awww?). Ayyy. Tapos may quotable quote nanaman siya:

(After solving a few ln problems and speking in pure nosebleeding lingo...)
Sir Oca: Class, it doesn't matter when we are born, or when we die. Those dates on our tombstone, of our birth and our death, they don't matter! (sabay kumpas ng kamay)
Humility class: (goggle-eyed) Ahhhh...huh???
Sir Oca: It is the time we spend it between those dates that matter. Our life, how we live it, that counts.
Humility: ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Sir Oca: Ganun din sa Math. Hindi importante yung equation at answer. Ang importante, kung paano niyo nakuha--ang importante, yung SOLUTION.
Humility: Aaaaaahhhhhh...
(after a few moments of contemplating, for, like, a split second)
Humility: (bursts into applause) Wooooooo!!!!!!!!! Go Sir!!!

THAT rumor. Was that Thursday? At English, Maam Hazel told me that Maam Beng wanted to talk to me, immediately. Nagtaka rin ako. I'll cut straight to the point: may nagsabi daw kay Maam Beng na teacher na narinig daw niya nung nagwowork kami sa faculty nung Saturday, dun sa may kitchen table, na Keeshia and I think the teachers are backbiting the students and betraying their trust, and that we were planning to write an article about it on Hillstar.

OOooooookay. I almost freaked out right then and there, but it was the faculty, and it was Maam Beng, and we were in too close proximity to make any sudden movements. :)) Just kidding.

I explained the whole thing to Maam Beng, and she was super fine with it. Peace na kami, klaro na.

So here was all that happened last Saturday: Keesh and I were revising articles on the kitchen table. Lumipat kami ng computer table dahil nagtype ako ng article line-up, and Keesh needed to talk to me while revising on her own. We were talking while working, tapos napatanong ako sa teacher sa tabi ko kung bakit at paano na ang daming nalalamang chika ng teachers about students, like yung mga boypren-girlpren thing, na ni kaming mga estudyante hindi namin alam. YUN LANG. Keesh and I never used the words backbiting, betraying students' trust, or making an article against teachers, never even had the idea. It was outrageous. For one thing, hindi tugma yung basic info. Nung nasabi namin yun, nasa computer table nga kami, hindi sa kitchen table. Hindi kami na-over hear: nagtanong talaga kami, pero it was in such a friendly way, tipong i-share niyo naman kung saan kayo nakuha ng chika. And what arrived Maam Beng's ears was totally a TWISTED MANIPULATION of anything we ever said. Sinabi pa nga ni Maam Beng na hindi niya rin alam kung bakit sa kanya nasabi nung person yun, pero bakit ba naman sasabihin kay Maam Beng kung ayaw kami mapahamak??? Good thing on good terms na kami ni Maam Beng--I always used to have the feeling na may kulo siya sa kin, but the feeling got better around beginning of 2nd quarter. I know she believed me and gave me the benefit of the doubt, and completely took my word on it, because she's the transparent kind of person, and I could have said that even without her telling me she was, and she would never hold back on expressing disbelieveing me if she did. Thank God that was ironed out.

...And if I go on more, makakatulog na kayo. Thanks to the people who inspired me to blog this morning, just by posting on their blogs this past week. :D It was a great stressbuster, and I feel like myself again.