December 13th, 2004
alien resurrected!
Posted bylalah at 02:41 PM on December 13, 2004.
ahoy, friends! i am back. after a month long hiatus, im here once again. i thank my friends who constantly check on me to see if im still alive
. the thing was, my hectic mwf sked's killing me and i use my tth afternoons to do my reading and my studying for my next lessons. then, the many no-class days (that usually fall on mwf days) aggravated the situation.
time is running out and we have alot of catching up to do to keep up with the syllabus. *sigh* so much have happened but i now i dont know how to relay it all to you in a manner understandable to people of normal mental states.
anyways, i fell ill pala sometime late last month and had to take a leave pa. then there's the usual problem of getting the school to pay us for the extra service we have rendered
as usual, our dept chair and our very own college was anything but great help for this matter! argh!
their haphazard ways of processing our papers made them stay dormant and unattended in the a.s. office! so now the payments are delayed! but i think that is much better than not being paid at all which was the prevailing rumor before.
some beating our country took eh? im talking about the recent calamities that struck us. i feel truly sorry for all those people in quezon and aurora. to have this kind of experience, and to have it all in their memory. and so close to christmas!
thats why i am always thankful to the lord for keeping me and my family in his care and safety always.
and i feel sorry and very bad about not being able to do any volunteer work lately. i had promised gel that i'd take good care of december's activity so she could catch up on her work. little did i know i would also be buried neck deep in work myself, making impossible for me to take a trip to manila to do the museong pambata activity. geez...so sorry, gel.
i hope i'd be able to make up next year...
finally i am back to the texting world. finally got a new phone na. and all of us at home are having the time of our lives striking a pose for pics. hihihi! geez, i never realized how techy the world is now. now i know what my econ teacher meant when he mentioned created needs. today, its not just enough to have a cellphone but you have to have the latest. when was getting a phone, twice or three times i got the remark: o, why not get the 7610? hallerrr! if i had the money for that do you think i am getting this one?! besides, this baby is more than i can handle. i mean, i dont even get to use half of its features, partly owing to the fact i am not exploring some of them for fear of killing my phone.
and wat a way to re-start my tabulas life! i was actually begging god last night for something "blog worthy" to happen for me so i'd have an interesting "come back entry" for all of u today. well, i wa thinking more of proctoring for the 1-23 class and seeing kiel
or much better,
lino cayetano making a surprise visit here to ask me to marry him
instead, wat he (god) did was to send some insect or bug or
higad to bite me and make me break out in hives while
delle and i were doing errands!
we were on our way to the bank when i started itching like hell. so naturally, i scratched my self like hell, too! result? i spread the itchiness on my left arm, my neck and my face!
delle was nice enough to accompany me to the clinic where the doctor, stiffling her smiles and giggles at the sight of me scratching myself mad, told me she's going to give me an antihistamine injection and some medicines. whaaaahhhhht???!!! injection?
sigh, life
talaga, so full of surprises. you'll never know when your going to get an injection (the doctor actually told me that). thank goodness the itch (good thing it wasnt a seven year itch
)) had subsided. im okay now, save some minor soreness on the site of injection. im a little bit drowsy too, which the doctor warned me (or conditioned me?!) will happen. so i cant wait till im home and can "baby" round my parents so they'd be extra nice and attentive of me. *sigh* all in all, its great to be back. at least i had something interesting to tell you today
November 17th, 2004
evict the homeless and other heartbreaks at the moment...
Posted bylalah at 05:46 PM on November 17, 2004.
what a day! my head's already spinning! three lab move system exams, 1 lecture exam and 1 ecology discussion. that may sound easy but we are talking about 3 sections taking move system quiz for the first time! so you talk about a bunch of nursing students getting disoriented no matter how many times you have given very explicit instructions. haaayy...
kung si kiel yan, okay lang! haven't seen him today. i am totally hoping i'd run into him naman to somehow ease my misery
anyway, cute talaga nya. (as in talaga, bart
)
met the marketing students again today. this despite the fact i already delivered my farewell speech last friday kasi i thought the class would be taken from me na (so i ould take over the mass com class). turns out the new teachers havent finished with their application yet (di pa sila na-panel interview) so our substitution continues. and then our fickle and absent-minded department chair turned the skeds of the new faculty, so im stuck with the marketing people until january!
waaaaahhhh! it was weird having to attend their class today after i told them last week that's the last they'll see of me. and as usual, they cheered when i came, as if naman they're happy to see me. so there's no way around the situation i guess so i just tried to make the discussion as lively as possible without them being over excited. thank goodness it worked except for some
pasaways at the back.
...
argh!!! one of the new teachers came na. and guess what...they made me share my table with him. now before you call me selfish and evil, let me explain to you. you see, ever since i came here, i never enjoyed any personal space. for one thing, i am occupying dr. bognot's table (former faculty here, now dean of educ. why? because...
) anyways, even if she has her own office already, she never took her stuff from her table here at the bio dept. so i am left with a table with drawers full of her stuff, compartments full of her vast collection of thesis of her former student (for future use, recycle, recycle, recycle
) and a clan of roaches!
so im just left with the pigeon holes and one shelf where i cram all my stuff. im practically a squatter here! darn! i even lost my beloved cell phone because i had to leave it in my bag in the office because i had no drawers with lock to keep it in. then sometimes my pile of things (books, papers, data notebooks) topple over me so i get hurt pa physically
when baloy and mam belle got hired (i got hired one semester ahead of them), they were given their own tables.
di ba ang sakit nun?! so i never had such thing as my own personal space. and its important for a teacher to have personal space. not just to store your stuff but also so you could read or do your paper works.
hirap talaga, lalo na now i have extra loads 12 units pa! then now that we have new faculty members, they told me i am to share my table with one of them. take note, they made me share my table with a male faculty, in their malicious quest to hook me up with someone. so now, i am left with one option: to go and sulk at
rho's and
delle's office which is already cramped in the first place. then my malicious colleagues here ask me,
"bakit di ka maki-bond sa new seat mate mo?" arrgh! how will i do just that when we barely have space to stretch our legs! why cant the others (the oldies here) share their tables kaya? they dont update their lessons so they dont read much so they dont have much books. so their shelves are pretty much empty. plus they have very relaxing schedules so they dont spend that much time in the office naman. eh ako kaya, im super dooper overloaded,
parang dati pa na im one of the first people to arrive here in the morning and still among the last ones to leave during the evening! i dont mind doing extra teaching kaya lang sana naman i am treated humanely!
and another thing, i hate hearing people here every now and then bemoaning their "fates." that means their subtitution or extra loads.
kakainis! eh they only have around 3 or 6 extra loads, why dont they try taking 12?! i mean, its so irritating to hear them fishing for pity and sympathy when there are people in a much, much worse fix thanthem!
...
isa pang dumudurog sa aking puso ngayon my new seatmate was supposed to teach genetics. but he informed our department chair that he could no longer remember his genetics, so could they just give him a different load?...well, our dept. chair automatically said "sure!" argh! when it took me days of crying my heart out and swallowing all my pride when i was faced with that dilemma this first semester! i ended up being relieved of the chem lec load (thank goodness!) but not without fighting tooth and nail!
tapos, ito, bago lang, your wish is my command agad?! me, after i rendered unselfish service to the department by taking over classes they wouldn't dare teach (and i had to do extended hours pa because of that!)?! again, i am not being
ma-kwenta. i wouldn't have minded had they been treating me fairly. for sure after that they think of me as a brat. pero i dont care anymore! the hell with them all! another
bopols move of this university. we hired 4 new faculty member this sem when we can just divide the extra loads among us,
delle and
rho included. but no, they wanted people with master's degree daw. and they dont have masters degree either! then next year, 1st sem, they (along with baloy, mam belle and me?!) would be jobless again.
tama bang pa-asahin at gamitin ang mga tao? they're wasting human resources and money! kainis talaga...
November 16th, 2004
birthday night and ways on how to outwit a potential killer
Posted bylalah at 03:02 PM on November 16, 2004.
let me tell you about me birthday night. me and me gang (sounding like a pirate here...) had nothing planned for my birthday night. but then, our perky, oriental friend girlie and norman asked
rho if we want to get together. so there, we made arrangements to meet at our house at 7 pm. had spaghetti dinner with
delle and
rho. in the middle o dinner, norman and girlie came. turns out girlie came straight from manila and didn't attend her classes (she's in med school here
) because she attended her aunt's funeral. we couldn't believe it when she told us how she died. she was gunned down infront of her house by a still unidentified killer. her two friends witnessed the whole thing while they were on board a taxi waiting for girlie's aunt to get to her house! horrible eh? i dont understand what the world's coming to. people are getting more and more violent. well, her aunt, aside from being really rich (as is common amongst chinese people in our country), has no known enemies. the guy just came up o her while she was waiting for their gate to be opened. then asked her if she was this person. she barely said yes when the guy shot her, then fled on board a motorcycle. i guess this was flashed on the news last week. however, given or crazy mentalities, count on us to make a joke out of this event. well, girlie for one was bemoaning the loss of her money-laded
ampao this christmas.
this sister of her dad's turns out to be the most generous among her aunts and uncles. then she told us about the cremation. well, you see, being chinese, her relatives were very superstitious. before relatives and family were allowed to enter to witness the cremation, they were asked if they were born on the year of the carabao (huh?!). all those who said yes were not allowed, her father included. now she couldn't give us an explanation for that either. so her father tearfully allowed his children and wife inside. when it was all over, he asked girlie what happened. girlie, being the psychotic that she is, far from consoling her father, told him they skewered her sister before placing her to the oven. poor father, he was horrified
at the idea of his beloved sister being barbecued! tsk tsk! girlie
talaga! well, what do you know, after sometime,
delle, ro, girlie, norman and i sounded like a bunch of drunkards even if all we were drinking were pepsi and water. we came up with alot of crazy ways to confuse a potential killer. if someone came up to us and asked us whether we are so and so...we came up with the following responses to aboid being killed:
killer: ikaw ba si sheila cabral?
me: ako? hindi ah! (deny to death)
or pwede rin to:
killer: ikaw ba si sheila cabral?
me: hindi ah! hindi sya dito nakatira. (then go on describing your mortal enemy and give him explicit diretions to his/her house)
or this:
killer: ikaw ba si sheila cabral?
me: hindi ah!
killer: hindi, ikaw itong nasa litrato eh!
me: ay, hindi, tignan mo, payat ako dyan! ang taba nyan ha! layo ng hitura ko dyan manong!
(argue that that's not you on the pic)
this is norman's idea which is a variation of his tactic when confronted by a ghost (in which he'll imply play dead daw)
killer: ikaw ba si norman garcia?
norman: (grabs the gun and shoots himself na)
oh well, at least he wasn't killed, he committed suicide.
this is girlie's suggestion
killer: ikaw ba si girlie lu?
girlie: hmmm...laro muna tayo! taguan, ikaw taya. sige bilang kana!
delle raised the question: what if its an innocent person about to inform you you won the lottery?! edi if you deny you're that person you risk losing your millions so to be safe, ganito daw:
killer: ikaw ba si
delle mercado?
delle: hmmm...teka...ano muna yan? sabihin mo muna bakit!
o di ba? you just have to know how to make lambing to your potential killer. deny to death to that you are that person. or better yet, asking him first his purpose, baka nga naman it involves money. how about you? any suggestions? feel free to post them here! so we're all safe! hehehehe!
anyways, went to northern brew after that, a nearby coffee shop i'e never been to ever. as in walking distance lang from our place. had a lovely evening with my great and psychotic friends
spent the rest of saturday, sunday and monday snoozing.
today, just gave the bsn 1-12 a quiz in the lab. our dept chair informed us that its unlikely that the new teachers would report to work any time this week so we are still to continue with our substitution this week.
ay hihihihi!
just saw kiel on our way to lunch today. i know na what his section is, 1-23!
he's under baloy in the lab. so now im being "friendly" to baloy. heheheh! been volunteering to sub for her in case she too feels ill to teach
hay...he's like an angel talaga. parang so placid and calm on the outside pero parang animalistic inside...darn guimo for putting ideas like these on my otherwise innocent mind!
November 12th, 2004
another year older
Posted bylalah at 06:31 PM on November 12, 2004.
yup, its me bday today. thanks so much for all who have dropped by to greet me
. i was specially touched for
kren's bday greeting for me on her blog.
and then of course
delle and ro, whom i barely saw actually until this moment. heheheh! so here's a full account of my life since yesterday.
thursday my favorite day at the moment. i only have two classes, zoolab with the bsn 1-12, then vacant till 5 pm. 5-6:30 pm, extra load of college bio lab with the crim people. not much for me to do actually, just the usual introduction to microscopy. i had so much fun with the crim actually. i know, i know i was dreading teaching them. but after two meetings with them, i discovered, they are not that bad at all. as in i had fun pa nga, kasi they are so funny. i agree with
delle, they have the right to be just like that: goofy, rowdy, funny and sometimes, stupid (but for them that's a form of entertainment. they think their doing service to others.
) for our meeting yesterday, i asked them to draw and label the microscope. very elementary i know. but u should be thankful if they draw as much the ocular or the mirror alone or, if they attended your class at all. i was surprised kasi they came prepared with pens and bond papers, some with the manual even and actually searched the net for the parts and their functions. miracle of miracles!
there were new students by the way. ahahahahahaha! more "twilight zones" came. im referring to the oldies, as in the oldies. can you believe there's even a father and son team in this class? the thing with teaching the oldies is that you both address each other respectfully. they call me "ma'am" because im the teacher, and i say "po" and "opo" to them because they are so old. hehehhe! you could see the
pagka-dyahe in them but i do my best to make them feel comfy and at ease all the time. at least they still grabbed the chance to catch up on their education diba? unlike some others who are given the opportunity but take it for granted.
what's more, when i was discussing, they were listening with rapt attention. now this IS a huge miracle because crim people are legendary for their 5-minute attention span.
in the end they came up with excellent drawings (well, some because they traced their copies but at least may effort diba?).
sayang extra load ko lang sila. next week i would no longer be their instructor.
as for the
sister act (our colleague who kept calling everyone ate and kuya) finally came to her senses. actually it wa due to baloy's "nice" and "humurous" approach. she asked her outright why she's calling us "ate"...
nang nakatawa a hehehehe! turns out she's two years my senior and she's 3 years baloy's senior.
and then by the way, i guess our other colleagues here are getting irritated too. even the ones who are older than her. they kept on sarcastically calling each other "ate" and "kuya." hahaha!
bad ba kami? wawa naman si xwing jaina baby...she thought i minded her calling me mama lah-lah. syempre naman, i find that sweet. i was just irritated with this colleague of of ours kasi she's acting like a baby when it doesn't look so good on her. hay! enough of that!
dumarating na ng paunti-unti mga new faculty namin, the ones we do substitution for. actually, they'd only be teaching part time, sister act included. i have mixed emotions. syempre im relieved to be relieved of some of my extra loads. but syempre, i wont be enjoying much of the extra pay kasi sandali lang. anyways, i'd still have 6 extra loads till january because now we need 3 full time and 1 part time (dati, 2 full time 1 part time lang). i was hoping i could actually get rid of the marketing people...in exchange for any other class...i so emphasized that to our department chair. i told him he could give me another extra load even. but as usual, owing to his extra short short term memory, he did just the opposite!
he RETAINED the marketing! argh! i guess he cant make use of his goiter problem as an excuse this time kasi he had that removed already!
hmp!
another annoying thing. since two of those who applied for the teaching posts were males, our colleagues here are already being malicious. they are thinking of "partnering" me with one of them, owing to the fact that i am still unattached (and i had never been for that matter). i mean now i understand how mam lynn, our nice co-faculty who is still enjoying her single-blessedness despite being in her thirties). so okay, i dont have any plans of ending up an old maid. sympre naman i also would like to have a love life. sabi nga ni xwing_jaina baby ko, every one starts with a sub zero love life. pero eventually it will just come diba? what i do not like is how some people think sa since you still do not hve a man in your life (or never had one ever), you are desperate na. they'd go through annoying heights to hook you with just anyone and then bug you all day long for latest updates. kairita diba? it doesn't mean na i dont have a boyfriend now, that's all i ever think of. i mean, im open to whatever life will throw at my way. if it comes, it will come.
friday my super dooper toxic day. but, its also my day
i told
delle and ro yesterday to be quite about my bday. you see im trying to save on money actually so im trying my colleagues' requiring me to treat them. i mean okay lang sa akin naman, last year i did just that. but at the moment money is rather tight. maybe some time but not now. so i told them to just greet me quietly and just give their GIFTS in secret hahahahahahah!
my plan was going so well, as in half of my day passed by without anyone other than
delle and ro remembering. this despite the fact that the ams that we all see first thing in the morning actually shows bday celebrants and it being posted at the dean's office. jairah, college student council greeted me but i was just in time to tell her to hush it all up.
my plan sana was that they would just remember next week, and since they forgot, they'd be ashamed to ask for a treat.
but then, as we were having lunch, the dean came because of a teaching demo. she said "uy, birthday mo! happy birthday!" i told her to tone down (take note, dean namin ito) but i wasnt quick enough. sir maze, our chair heard it! "birthday mo?!" oh well, that started it...anyways, since they still forgot all about it, they didn't dare ask for a treat
heheheheh! i know, i know. im so stingy now...sorry ha, low budget eh. bad talaga ako. so that's it. another year older. i was thinking last night, as the last hours of my 22 years were ticking away, i found myself as usual reflecting. what good have i done for the past year. teach? maybe, but to be honest, i didnt give it my 100%. im a lazy bone din eh most of the times. started volunteer work? maybe...i hope so...but i hope i could do more this year. as in. i love doing volunteer work. i love working with kids. i love contributing to the saving of the environment. i love contributing to society. i love making small wonders. i love making a difference, no matter how small...but i hope i could do more this year and in the years ahead.
November 10th, 2004
so indefferent to the max! 
waaaaaahhhh!!!...ang cute talaga ni kiel hihi! 