...uaap, sensitivity, and gremlins ...

ever watched a uaap game live? if not, you were like my aunt who never did. then when ust had a chance for a championship last year, she watched it from the first game against ue til the last game when we ate the eagles alive... and now, she watches it with much gusto, live or on tv..

what it will give you:
animation.my aunt shouts like hell now even if she's just watching on tv.

school spirit.the atmosphere around you makes you feel the whole school community is cheering for one concrete goal.and even if you don't know the cheers, you could always make a circle with your outstrectched arm and shout "go uste!"... every school has a cheer that's easy to remember.. "get that ball" "u-nibersidad ng pilipinas" "go la salle" "go fight tamaraws go fight" "go u-e go go u-e"... alright. you got me. not all schools. a cheer for nu & adamson escapes me...

stress relief.after a week's work with all the drama and frustrations, screaming your heart out should help easing out stress...

camaraderie.you don't always know people around your seat, but a winning basket on an exciting game would make you hug them or give them a high five as if you've been friends for a long time...

just some of the great things you experience in a game..

one of the bad things in uaap now? freakin sensitivity. its a f*ckin basketball game, not a free throw shooting contest... refs are turning games into one... a player doesn't go up to try to block a shot, rather just put his hands straight up. NORMALLY, that's not a foul, as long as that player is stationary and has hands straight up. BUT THEN, he gets called for a foul. star players get called for their 3rd fouls in just the 1st quarter, and that's not good because you're allowed only 5 fouls. the coach has to sit star player down until late in the 3rd quarter to avoid those fouls. games turn ugly once it becomes a free throw shooting contest... you lose the excitement, you lose the fast breaks, the steals, the dunks, the monster rebounds, everything you came to see...

hope they get younger, richer refs. younger to see better, richer so as they won't be bribed. dirty little f*ckers.

and finally, don't you notice, everytime it rains it gets more and more traffic? and later on you'd notice its not because there are so many cars, but rather because there are so many people waiting for rides that they occupy half of the road... and remember that people always tell you  jokingly "ingat sa ulan, baka dumami ka" referring to you as a "gremlin" which is a creature popularized by a movie with the same title back late 80's or early 90's...?

now, putting the two together, i could only end up with a single conclusion:



there are gremlins among us. and that's the reason why traffic is hell everytime it rains. people multiply.


God help us...help those who commute that they may be able to get home despite the number of gremlins around...

...backstabbing, honesty, politics and depression...

do you like what you do?

i think i don't... its about my second month on the job and i don't think i like it... it's routine, it's degrading to some extent, and it's has a lot of restrictions... i want to help people out but these people look down on people who stutter when they speak, they seem to think we are omnipotent but we're restricted by freakin guidelines these people don't want to understand... it's not my cup of tea... the only good thing about it is that i earn something for myself... i gotta look for something else..

but then again, how many careers are there open to a Philosophy graduate who earned nothing more than a bachelor's degree? demmit...

DLSU vs FEU.
voltaire: kali, kahit na titigil na tayo, pde bang kunin mo pa rin odds sa DLSU - FEU game? walang katalo talo un eh.. kahit 5k pa sa DLSU na mei +20 ang FEU, laban pa din!
kali: bakit naman?
voltaire: puro bago FEU... wla pa cla napapatunayan sa first two games nila....
GAMEDAY:
Kali: FEU +18 vs DLSU. Laban ka pa rin?
voltaire: <<thinks twice, texts FEU na, but deletes it and writes:>> cge, laban lang.1.5K.:D
GAME RESULT: DLSU gets 3pt win over FEU. FEU rookie Sanga delivers big.

ODDS Result for the week: only win comes w/ UST. bets for DLSU over UE for 2k to lower 2.5k losses, and whatdoyouknow..... UE dominates DLSU in the 2nd half... everything going wrong for the latter, everything falling into place for the former...

eto na nga lang pinaggastusan ko anlaki pa... i havta stop this odds game and wait for the NBA playoffs again... tongits na lang!!:p

BACKSTABBING: talking about someone with that someone having no knowledge that you speak about him/her.

its never been a problem. it will be if the "someone" who is the topic will know that you are talking about him/her.

so don't speak of anything about anyone if you don't have that much trust in that person... if you say something then do something totally against what you said, make sure that whoever you were talking to wouldn't find out about what you did...

everyone has their own mind and the freedom to write or speak about what they think. but if its supposed to be a super personal feeling that you know could affect not only you but everyone else around you, why tell the whole freakin world about it through your web log <blog as popularly known>? you know everyone could have access to it...

college-level politics and the mess it makes through blogs, rumors, and backstabbing... the environment that i lived w/ which made me more and more disgusted on entering law school and eventually local politics... youth = hope of the nation? with these kind of youth, i'm starting to think our nation is bound to be in a worse state than how we are now...

HONESTY: a trait a number of my uncles lack that make their relationships a bit sour.

women always ask for it, but they don't always like it.<<remember zsa zsa padilla in "ako legal wife">>.. after last night, i understood why "men are from mars and women are from venus" was thought up: we come from different planets and speak different languages but ended up in the same planet. she doesn't understand him, and he doesn't understand her. if he does something he thinks would please her, she boils up. if she does something she thinks would please him, he'd get irritated. i guess it is natural for men not to understand women and vice versa... the best men and women can do is live through the misunderstandings in life and let love overcome these misunderstandings... maybe love could clear things up... misunderstandings will stay if nobody is calm and if nobody speaks his/her mind to clear things up... conversation = good, only if both have an open mind which tries to understand the other...

my week in a blog... whew...:D

...the eventful life of a philosophy graduate...

    finally... a time to blog...

i can't these past few days, weeks, or months even... i saw my last blog entry and i believe it had something to do with a lesson learned in class...

here's a rundown of life since 4th yr philosophy:

1. after thesis bumming
2. pressured into managing an ice cream business
3. gambled on nba playoffs
4. felt ice cream business wasn't going to prosper, decided to go back bumming
5. got an offer to work as a manager for my uncle's candy factory in novaliches
6. declined, citing distance probs and possible job offers
7. felt the urge to work, sent resume, and within 3 days got hired in a call center
8. went to zambales to cap the summer
9. started work
10. got a new phone off a trade with my uncle
11. earned 1st paycheck
12. 2 days later lost everything on the paycheck

yep. call center. a job i swore i wouldn't attach my name to. but then again, i'm here... i turned down 2 jobs where i would be my own boss in favor of a job where every caller is supposed to be my boss. it seems degrading for someone to have graduated since call centers offer undergrads a chance in life. but then again, stepping into one, its harder than it seems. there seems to be more room to grow. maybe i'm just saying this to make myself feel better. but then again, i'm not alone with these sentiments. at least i'm earning.

summer source of income: nba odds.:p it won me some, but then lost me more. the longer i place bets, the more i lose. but then, it's all part of the game..:D occasionally, i do enjoy the game i love without fear of losing money... like the 1st game of ust. i lost my voice cheering our team on but 3ptrs just wouldn't go in. demmit. i felt a 3pt barrage coming up in the 4th but i didn't think it would be coming from the wrong team... aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

best hobby: sleep. yep. never changed.:p in my college days it was sleeping in class, now it's sleeping in training..:D

                : early morning drinking sessions: its weird. at only 6am i have a beer bottle on my hand. by 12noon, im wasted. by 2pm im hibernating, and i wake up in the middle of the night only to sleep again.

i hate mondays. it ruins my body clock. i should be sleeping now. but i've been on my bed for about 14hrs already and i can't get myself to sleep again...