#4th-year

Sabi ko gagawa ako ng postmortem for the sem that was, pero para sa ibang mga klaseng kinuha ko, parang ang bigat pala sa loob kong gawin yun. Pero kasi, ritwal na ito at ayoko siyang i-break. So eto. Photojourn Siguro medyo mouthful na ang naicomment ko dito: it was blah. Sayang na hindi ko ito nakuha last sem, because based on what the Multiply friends say here it seemed like a great class. I'm not saying TG isn't good; I just wish there was...more. Malas lang namin na natapat na marami siyang projects this sem kaya hindi niya rin kami natutukan. Which means that you'll never hear me say "Don't take this class." Kasi kahit ganun, iba pa rin siya magturo. No frills, no bullshit, as is, where is. Intro to Radio Prod I know the Broad majors will disagree, pero masaya akong natapat sa isang prof na hindi naninigaw, nananakot o namemressure pag prod na. (Masyado nang haggard ang sem para dagdagan pa niya noh.) Kaya naman napaka-fun ng klaseng ito, pero marami ka ring matututunan, at hindi yun dahil sa mga teorya't lektyur na pagdadaanan mo sa umpisa. Group effort talaga ito, at bawat isa may silbi. Minsan pa nga nakadepende sa talent mo ang kalalabasan ng grade mo. Dito narealize ko din na hindi talaga ako director material. More like talent material, pwede pa. *chuckle* Intro to CommRes (v.1) At talagang may v.1 ha! Hehe. Hindi siya madaling subject. Hindi rin chever lang ang prof. Mag-isip pa lang ng topic, hindi na madali. Living in constant plagiarism paranoia can really get into you, pero somehow it makes you more OC. haRhaRhelL is hell, pero I must say masayang tumingin-tingin sa mga thesis (kamusta naman ang seeing the silver lining in the clouds). Hindi talaga siya madaling subject. Nakakaloka lang na we lived in a matrices sa subject niya, pero naappreciate ko din nang kailangan nang i-paragraph form ang mga problems, objectives, RRL, chever. Nasabi ko na bang hindi siya madaling subject? Pero isa kasi siyang necessary evil that you can't avoid. Sana lang ang comres v.2 ko ay maging fun. For a change. The Newsroom Iba talaga 'tong klase na 'to. Walang ranggo: lahat kami editors. Walang pahinga: umaaverage kami ng 5 papers a week ang workload (although nung huli, kumonti man, bumigat naman). Walang patawad: bawat articles na pinapasulat sa amin, ifaflash for the whole class to see para maworkshop ng lahat (teh horror!). Walang kawala: Deadline kung deadline (pwera kung may excuse slip, at strict siya dito ha!). Sa finals, nasa rules na pag hindi nakatapos ay kailangang magbigay ng letter to defend kung bakit nagkaganon. Kaya nakakaoverwhelm kasi ang bait bait bait talaga niya as a person. Enjoy ang pagiging prangka niya, pero mas enjoy na marami ka talagang matututunan sa kanya. Kaya siguro hindi ko rin mablame na marami sa mga nagdaan sa kanya ang willing na magdaan ulit sa kanya. At isa na ako dun. TV Journ Eh, maeecho ko lng ang iba't ibang comment at blog posts na nasabi na. Haha. So sa ibang entry na lang kasi mahaba pa yung mga hindi pa nasasabi. ^___^

Bev asked: "So what happens when April arrives?" Ah, but she has employment (and Italy) to distract her and the rest of April '08 kids. But I fear June. By then, a lot of them will have left (and maybe "distracted" as well). The places will stay, but the people associated with those places will not. By then, the occupants of the unofficial table will the smaller group of young 'uns who have no theses to think about. And because they are fewer than the rest, more outsiders will have the chance to hang out in that table to kill and to dethrone. By then, the multiply posts of the April '08 kids will be rants about about The Season 4 of Their Lives. Or maybe they won't post at all, because they're too "distracted." No more posts about dreams, school rivalries, malls, online games, sem-enders, IBS-ing, camwhorring, Harry Potter smiles, or just being bored. And by then, I have no choice but to painfully witness everything. I fear June because I fear these things might come true. And if they did, then I'll end up feeling, for lack of a term, lonely. That's not a good thought for a future so near.

Habang remote-happy ako last week, napatigil ako sa Life Guide care of Universitv. Pang-fun lang dahil boring pa ang primetime. Anyway, ang segment nila ay tungkol sa Moving On. At nat(a/u)wa ako sa narinig ko (paraphrased by me): "Ang moving on, parang thesis yan: hindi mo siya gustong gawin, pero kailangan mong tapusin." Winner!

Time Monday Tuesday Thursday Friday 08:30 AM - 10:00 AM Anthro 181 MHR  J 117 TRU  Anthro 181 MHR  J 151 FRU  10:00 AM - 11:30 AM J 199 MHU  J 117 TRU  J 199 MHU  J 151 FRU  11:30 AM - 01:00 PM         01:00 PM - 04:00 PM   Comm 140 TWX  Comm Res 101 HWX  J 109 FWX 

Kunin niyo na po ang mga turned over papers niyo in the pigeonholes. The Chair is threatening to throw 'em all out by Thursday. Yikes!

But I'm gearing up for tomorrow dahil maraming tao bukas. Tumataginting na 151 people ang nasa listahan for tomorrow (although yung iba dun yung mga graduating na, but wth) so wish ko lang magawa ko ng maayos ang trabaho ko bukas. ^____^

So medyo kebs na lang muna kung sawa na kayo sa daily blogging of R.A.-ing ha? Hehehe. Day 3 of R.A.-ing in the Journ Department. Target: juniors, graduate students (whom I usually referred to Ate Raquel) and graduating students. Hmmm. Food was great and very filling. *burp* Answered less calls today (or maybe some were taken care of na). Only a handful of professors turned up too. Meanwhile, rhe shiftee dramas for today reduced and became mind-boggling instead: A group of kids asked if they could actually appeal to The Chair. *sigh* A guy asked kung baka waitlisted naman siya. *huh?* A guy asked for a retake kasi wala daw nagsabi sa kanya kung kailan, so he missed the exam. *shakes head* Anyway, I must say na na-surpass ng juniors ang competitiveness ng freshies, numbers-wise. By 8am the lines were longer (and rowdier) compared to the other dates. But then again, this has to be Journ's biggest batch ever. But the poor kids had to endure some morning kabitchessahan (say "awwww"). Dahil walang ibang adviser nung una, wala siyang choice kundi i-accommodate ang juniors, na ginawa naman niya as quick as possible. Yun nga lang, nung hindi na niya kinaya at kami naman ang binitchesahan niya, kami na mismo ang mga nagpa-repel sa kung sinuman ang gustong gumambala sa kanya. Kamusta naman. Before you know it, wala na halos dumadating by 10:45. Today however became my most entertaining after lunch so far while the Form 5As and checklists became stale. Sa kakahintay ng mga pinetition nila, ginawang tambayan ng mga juniors ang Dept. It was fun hearing their rant, rave, kwento and joke mix, so I left most of the talking to them. And because the mahiwagang-counter-sa-bungad-ng-Department became their venue of catharsis, they have christened me "the bartender". Funny how almost a month ago, I was among the people bitching to the S.A.s in the counter about the harshness of acads, too. But can we really blame them for bitching about the enlistment? Not really. By this time, hundreds na ang nag-aagawan for the limited slots. The sophomores will have to tough it out tomorrow. Sigh. Online or manual, any changes to the enrollment scheme certainly can't solve the lack of classes due to the lack of professors. But please don't get me started on that. Anyhoo, since less people were coming in, I finally managed to mix the 5As with the checklists to make things easier tomorrow. So say hello to a speedy checklist turnover as I gear up for tomorrow's (almost) final stretch.

So there, my pics for the final photo-journ project care of Makiling Botanical and Laguna Bay. Wee. Walang ginawang post-prod sa mga litratong ito except for optimizing them for the Web. Kasi kung yung talagang yung raw file ang ipopost ko dito, baka abutin tayo ng siyam-siyam dahil MB ang file size nung mga yun. Right. Enjoy and ask for permission if you have to grab some. P.S. Favorite ko talaga yung unang pic. Si Flau nga pala yung tao dun. ♥