i am a UP student once again, complete with all papers, payments and harrassment.

enrollment in this university is just hell. and by hell i mean, lines, endless lines, lines of death, of depression, lines of eternity, of exhaustion. HELL, basically. however, all of these inconveniences were compensated by the fact that i finally have my lone major subject,[psych 101] courtesy of my AMAZING prerog powers. and then i also experienced the longest queue of my life just for the sake of getting my PE: cheerleading. sounds gay, right? fortunately, all we have to do in this PE is to watch UAAP games. no, make that BORING uaap games.

suffocating

because mykol is vain, we [rico, john dale and i], had to accompany him in his search for the best pairs of shorts to divisoria. and i thought UP enrollment was hell. divisoria is like, hell-er. people are swarming everywhere. plus, the constant fear of possible snatching freaked me out. gahd. it was stressful, tiring and morbid. divisoria is, so REAL. and so after that escapade, we decided to stop by at MoA and eat. [and of course, take some pictures]cute ko talaga.wahahah. see? my lips are pouting because of my braces. shet.

we had this sorta debate thing in kalai [No Gray Areas Debate Tournament]. it was an inter-floor debate tournament sponsored by our dorm's publicity committee. so beforehand, we had to attend this seminar featuring some bigwigs with technical know-hows about debate stuffs. kinda boring really. so boring that i had to take photos. [i mean, i should be on the photos.]

it was horrendously sleep-inducing. however, my interest was aroused because of a recurring 'past experience'. how vague. wahahah.i can't believe the orb is back. what should i do now. naks.

i strategically positioned myself for this photo. hanapin nyo ko...this was taken after the debate seminar. [me: tae, how can i stand out in this photo?!]

we were unlucky enough to be in the first round of debates against 3rd floor girls. and so with much cramming and overnight familiarization with the asian parliamentary format [we had to practice on: 'we regret the rise of Korean TV series'], we blabbered about things for the debate last friday. the motion we picked by lottery was : this house believes that the human security act of 2007 must be junked. we were on the opposition side and i was the deputy leader of the opposition.the debate was somewhat 'bigtime', because taking aside the venue [kalai viewing area] and the so-so tarpaulin, we had a philo summa cum laude as an adjudicator. hwaww. now that's what i call deep. we talked about the game plan and basically did these things: that yes, we concede that there is terrorism in the country, and another, the HSA should be revised and not junked. i think everything turned out well. i think.

i look sedated here. you can see my teammate, riley, at my right. he's from ateneo de naga and he's the only one who knows how to do a REAL debate among the three of us. and, he is gay, like LOUD gay. on my left is mykol, this is only one of very few photos where he is not posing. this is already the part where the adjudicator was handing out the results, see, i already looked sleepy.

one of the adjudicators was telling us something about an error on our arguments or something like that. i was already so tired so i didn't really give a damn. we won anyway! weehee! more rounds to go! tiring.

this was the before part when we were, ugh, cramming and i was already panicking. you can't blame me, i am left-inclined, i WANT to junk HSA! junk it! just freaking junk it!

hoorayness

this is the peak of my happiness for the week- the 3rd filipino comics convention. it was held today, from 10am up to 6pm at bahay ng alumni in u.p diliman. i had to shrug off my exhaustion from the debate the previous noght just to wake up on time. the entrance fee was 50 pesos and comes with a complementary paper fan [how...nice]. pol medina jr. was there, as well as carlo vergara and manix abrera plus the culture crash team..hwawww...so surreal...it would have been a very happy experience, however, if only i had MONEY. gahd. depressing.

why the hell is avril lavigne sporting a beverly hills cheerleader-slut look? i thought she's the friggin' anti-britney. so much for 'marketability'.

let me add some short reviews:

avril lavigne's 'the best damn thing': some tracks were really really great [innocence]. others were stupid [i don't have to try]. overall, this is a must for my 'opening soon' iPod. i wonder why avril is so fond of cussing ohwell. nice. rating: 8/10

james blunt's 'all the lost souls': i have always been a james blunt fan. in fact, my fave song is his 'goodbye my lover' [so vivid]. this new album is even better. i love to have his hairdo, too. rating: 9.5/10

the fray's 'exile on mainstream': this was already released last 2005. it was only now i've heard it. i've said it before, this album is just PERFECT for my imaginary iPod. 'how to save a life' is AWESOME. [shet, i sound like a dumb music-junkie]. rating: 10/10

i lost a subject today.

it was that quick that i barely came up with a rational emotional response like 'shet', 'putek' or 'damn you CRS'. i just opened the 'enlistment' link, and lo and behold, Psych 101 just went missing, zero, zilch, gone. the feeling numbed me, i could not believe i was experiencing a casualty. i have BECOME a casualty of this rotten, underfunded system. after so much effort and time praying to the ehavens and clicking stuffs just to get that subject, it's gone. oohh.. would that qualify as emo? wahahah! screw them.

it's not that dramatic, irritating actually. my initial response was to text my adviser [close kasi kami]. i asked him what happened, how come the earth was conspiring against me, how come they were oppressing and hurting the feelings of an unknowing freshie.

kuya adviser: you should have gone to psych department for your post-advising. since you did not show up, we cancelled your psychology subjects.

now that's a good reason. oh yeaahh, i am a delinquent psych freshie, i am a no-show at psych stuffs and i prefer to be un-'psychish' for the mean time. i didn't know that. bummer. so now i need to face the advising committee with a very good reason.

me: uhm..sir/mesdames, it has come to my attention, much to the fulfillment of my intellectual wants and curiosities, that this social scientific path i chose, psychology, has this self-centric doctrine which is rather excluding and oblivious in nature. i believe, and it is upon my principle to choose a field of intellectual growth where i must be exposed and oriented by truth and the whole expanse of it. i regret to say that psychology has hidden me from other aspects of our existence, like society, social networks and man as a social being. so the problem, sirs and mesdames, is with the field, not with me alone. but i assure you this is no more than a passing judgment. no, i have not yet studied psychology under you, and so i am waiting for the time when you will provide me with the idealisms that shall erase this presumption of mine regarding psychology. after all, i have chosen this field over all the others i could have wanted to be in, simply due to the fact that i believe it will teach me things i NEED to know. so, sorry, hindi ko alam na may advising period pala. sorry na po.

well it's a little illogical if the reason why i did not go to advising is because my sociology fancy has been contradicting psychology as my own course. i hope it works though. kuya adviser assured me that the advising committee could be lenient towards me since i am still a goody-good freshie.

they should be. i need that subject BACK. right now!

picture-taker(si rico yata o si oswald?): elfer, picture!

me: [to myself:ooh. shet. teka. isip akong pose.hmm..ano kaya?..wait! wait!]

picture taker: ...2...3!...

thus, my YM display image. it's so..artistically suggestive.naks.

two more days and i'll be back in kalai and off to the HELLish enrollment period. i don't know how to prepare. i think i should get some breathing lessons and look for the most durable fan.

and of course, i should get ready with my ToFI-molested tuition fee.

here is an explanation for the common 'tuition fee' misconception. when we say 'tuition' it is already considered a 'fee'. a tuition is a classification or type of a fee. that is, tuition is a 'fee', which in this situation, is an amount you pay for a specified number of academic units. thus, a tuition is to the academe just as how a tariff is to trade. [but do not equate both totally so as to assume that tuition is something obstructive in nature (which applies to the case of tariffs, at least, historically)] this is going to be too long if i always try to be politically correct [hehehe]. the point is: if we say tuition fee, that would become redundant. i think this is also how CAL people explained the revision of TFI to ToFI. o.a ng UP, kahit lantarang protesta na eh gusto po grammatically and politically-correct. yehey!

JERICHO: "O, Heart, bakit ganyan suot mo? Emo ka na rin?"

HEART: "Hindi, Echo...Kikay ako at malandi, malayong maging emo ako. Ginagawa ko 'to kasi nung simulang maging tayo, nawalan na ako ng offers kaya tiniis ko ang pagka-Emo ng Penshoppe.

JERICHO: : "Huhuhu. Patawarin mo ako, pagtiisan na muna natin ito hanggang malaos na ang pagka-EMO dito sa pilipinas!"

HEART: "I hate you Echo, I hate you! Hindi sana nangyari ito kung hindi tayo nag one night stand! Hindi sana ako nagpapaka-Emo at ineendorse ko pa sana ang Palmolive ngayon!"

JERICHO: "Pero, Heart..hindi tayo nag one night stand..nag court ako sa'yo nang dalawang linggo..hindi mo na ba naaalala?.."

HEART: "Ay, hihi..iba pala yun..hihihi. Sige Echo, pose na lang tayo bago pa makasuhan ng libel ang blog writer!"

JERICHO: "O siya siya, baka pati Penshoppe ay isuka na rin tayo. Go EMO! Yebah!"