ABOUT TIME

my english teacher in ajss (35th, ateneo junior summer seminar, some two years ago) ms chona lin (not lim) quoted some famous literary great or something and said something to this effect:
if you don't write your memories and experiences, it's as if they never existed.

hmmm.. doesn't sound poetic enough to me. oh well. i told you, something to that effect.

my 3rd year high school english teacher ms suyin told us something more poetic (if only because i remember this one and not the previous):
"the fadest ink is clearer than the sharpest memory."

right. nuff of my cliched intros and lemme get on with "writing using ink" so my memories will "exist". that's right. it's ABOUT TIME i blog. (i read the title again and no, this is not about my philosophy about time and space and all). ;P


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before i slept a while this afternoon (for what, 30 minutes?!) , i read some email. i've recently discovered this cool "pop peeper" program which checks my mail every 5 minutes. it's like e-prompter, which was the program recommended to me by wayne dell, but for some reason i couldn't run the setup file. bummer. pop peeper works fine anyway, so watda.

ANYWAY, my ajss2002 yahoogroup was getting messages about 37th batch now. it was cool actually, to realize that sheesh, it's been two friggin' years already and our yahoogroup is still alive and kickin. and yes, a gentle reminder to me that good ol' joshie is gettin older by the minute. disiotso ka na joshep!! time to what, get a life? haha. =)

the results of aj were out already, and i think one of my aj batchmates has a sibling there (genes nga naman). patty, a fellow ajsser, mentioned in an email that she was searching (or according to an episode of SATC, perhaps "googling")for the aj37 results when she came up with a site from ajss36. and that got her a little nostalgic and parang, whoa, two years na pala kami.

anyway, patty posted the link to the blog, which i later visited.
grabe, ajss does MAGIC talaga. it's the superb-est, bestest, surest way to get some smart studes all over the country to get all mushy and comfy and warm and fuzzy all over. or at least, jelly enough to have swollen eyes during and after graduation. that was some real cool fun. =)
never mind if it was a clever scheme to brainwash top students to liking ateneo de manila.
as i've always maintained, i was happily brainwashed.
and, like the rest of the ajss people from all batches, i think that was the best summer experience.
(nga pala, bat 5 weeks lng sa aj36, diba 6 weeks ang aj35? nebermaynd. =P )

ayun, i couldn't help but tag on anna banana's tagboard, and even mention 3 of my juniors of pisay davao who i'm sure are now soem of her closest buddies.

sigh. ajss. arrrrrghhhh! makes me wanna fly back to manila (or wherever the ajss pipol are) and gather all the aj babies!
(shempre andami sa kanila pumunta ng admu, diba?) haha. the cervini days. miss the dormers din and the whattamen and the manila people.

i-compare ba sa king edward 7 hall ko right now? hehe. um, iba sila eh.
but i'm POSITIVE my network of friends would be much bigger kung nasa manila ako. ;)
pero nga, iba pa rin sila. (play it safe.)

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the other e-mail issue i'm a little annoyed about is about the one regarding my fencing photo-shoot!!

darn. it was last night! at 10:30 pm!

and you know where i was at 9:30pm? in the freaking photo room!
and you know who was the photographer? the head of fencing, KY!

oh well. nebermaynd.

i don't blame KY for not telling me. it was all my fault. and you know why?!

because they sent me an email!! which, for some reason, i wasn't able to read!!
hmmm.. i checked my pop peeper and it wasn't there.
and i remembered maybe the email was sent to my mailcity account, on which i couldn't use the peeper.
i checked it, nada.

i checked the yahoogroups message archive and the email was there.
dammit.

the only two extra-curricular activities i got involved in for this year, and in half of them i wasn't in the photo!
but oh well. must have deleted the email without reading. or without remembering. never mind.

at least, i was in the PR Comm photo. i told myself i'd run AMUCK if i wasn't in that photo.
i mean, with the crazy workload, the zits, the swollen eyebags, i should at least have myself immortalized in one small photo in the yearbook! and so it was.

but, darn, just reread the email just now, and the fencers were in full body gear in the photo.
oh well. forgive yourself na jose. that's okay. =)


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before the pr comm photo shoot, i went to church with brice. it was ash wednesday you see, and i just HAD to go to church now since i've been a very bad boy. i mean, last sunday i didn't go to church since i told myself i had to study for the midterms. i was hoping God would forgive me and understand my need to at least pass my statistics and physics (yep, i won't complain much na). but i realized that wasn't a valid reason. the other week i went to church all right, but i arrived when the priest was giving the sign of peace. the week before that, birthday ko pa naman, i arrived during communion. sigh. bad boy.

anyway, bonding bonding daw kami ni brice kevin. as i've told korinna before, mabait si brice, kahit hindi obvious. hahaha. hmmm.. i'm thinking if brice can read this, given that our blogs are linked.. hmmm.. okay naman si brice eh. yun pa. cool guy. and with a cool career to boot! saludo ako dun. pasimple lng, tinik sa physics and statistics.

we had some good conversations, and it was all good. we're stuck with each other for a good 4 years din, kaya buti na yung bonding bonding. yiheeeee.


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before that, we had this crazy physics lab. 2-5pm. dustin and i were groupmates, and for some reason, our frequency generator and oscilloscope weren't topnotch. the signal kept blinking and at times it was even moving while we were measuring it. kakahilo sobra. and to top it all, i forgot my calculator. buti na lang our instructor, feng qingguo, who has quite some difficulty with english, is considerate. ayun, just submitted my lab today. overdue, but hopefully with no deductions.
(i asked him if there were any deductions if i passed the day after, and not on the same afternoon, and he didn't seem to get what i meant. the lady instructor, who also had english difficulty, thought i was asking about the discussion part of the experiment. anyway, sir qingguo said at last, after my asking him at least twice, that there was not much difference.)


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oh, before that was the physics test. 8:15-9:30am. i think i screwed up, never mind if i studied like an insomniac in the study room the past few nights (since we had back-to-back midterms).

i didn't get this and that, and also this one question where the dr roland su instructed us to use most of the page to draw a ray diagram. darn. i didn't know he was strict about the scaling of the blasted ray diagram. so ayun, i couldn't find my ruler, and my "straight lines" occupied only 1/3 of a page. i didn't even get the concept perfectly right, so never mind.

i asked dr su if we could get the solutions to the test, and he said "no" with a grin. no problem really. but it sure would've been nice.


funny, i don't seem to be too affected this time.
i just "send it up". sure it feels awful to screw up a test expecially if you've got eyebags and zits to testify to your diligence, but i sure am proud of myself for not being depressed about it. unlike last sem probably.

it feels much better this way.


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oh, BEFORE THAT physics midterm yesterday morning, i had statistics midterms the previous afternoon, 2-4pm.
i think i didn't do horribly, on the contrary.. nah, don't assume too much.
but really, i don't think i did spectacularly, but i did okay. i think. never mind if everyone thinks 0.88 is the correct answer while i got 0.619. and nobody knows the right answer for the last question just yet.



oh well. hmmm... long blog now.
here's the deal: i give u readers a break from this overly looong blog and i give myself some much-deserved sleep. deal! =)