rollercoaster birthday.

finals are officially finished for the term! :) hallelujah! :) hahahaha :) one big load off my back. :)

had my birthday yesterday. :) guess it was my gift that finals ended at the same day. :) however, my birthday was an emotional rollercoaster. full of ups and downs. it felt fun but sad at the same time. filled with tears and laughter. okay, let me elaborate.

wednesday (april 18) - i didn't get much sleep because our thesis paper, partdes final paper, and tecthe4 defense were all due on that day. it was pressuring and stressful but knowing that it was my bday and the last day of finals made the day sound less depressing and stressful than it was. my mom cooked bday noodles (yum!) :) when i went to school, my friends greeted me happy birthday :) it was okay. we went to tecthe4 class, which was under sir jay. then did we know that our panel was composed of sir jay himself (terror), a guest panel who worked for the show control of star city (uh-oh), and ms. alfon (on-the-spot-suicide). currently, the conflict between our batch and our chairperson (ms. alfon) has not yet been resolved. so, in short, we were D.E.A.D.

the presentation began. the guest asked us questions that we couldn't answer well. and ms alfon sat there looking all smug and all. it was good that i still found the human nature in me and stop myself from lunging towards her and strangle her. (having lindsay lohan in mean girls in mind... hahaha) but yeah, she was like, "that's a real easy question. ba't hindi niyo masagot?" i should've asked her on the spot, "why miss, i would very much like you to enlighten me." for someone who mixes up the job of a technical director with a lighting designer, i should say i would very much like to hear her side. forgive me for saying those things. but i would just like to rant out everything i'm feeling.

in the end, she specifically told us that we should withdraw our tecthe6 (thesis2) class next term since no one will pass tecthe5 (thesis1). and to think that we were reporting in our tecthe4 (AUTOMATION) class. hmm... tecthe4 and tecthe5 have no relation at all, right? so, WHY BRING IT UP? what the hell is it with her and her, "and i'm speaking as the chairperson of your course." bullshit. she may be the chairperson, but it doesn't give her the right to emotionally and PHYSICALLY abuse her students. it's just not right.

so after the presentation, the whole class had blank stares. hahahaha :) we were all stressed and sabaw. then we were scolded by sir jay and told by ms. alfon that we were going to fail our thesis. it was like a curse had been brought onto us ever since 'the birds' came into our lives. i swear that i will burn 'the birds' if i see another copy of it. :) hahahaha :)

sir jay. in his class, we were always the ones reporting. our topic was show control. DMX 512, RS-232, token passing, network topologies, etc etc etc. and he expects us to understand what the hell we were reporting. hmm... i have to be honest that we all sure as hell had a hard time reporting and researching the topics. yes, it was a process of learning and what better way to learn if not by researching and finding out yourself. crap. it was hard enough to research the topics. more so, UNDERSTAND them. it was HARD. esp. when we aren't exposed to the things we're studying. since our ojt2 was put to waste on acting and other school programs. yes, we have dealt with the LRC people a lot of times. now, can we move on? hahaha :) i should say that our chairperson still needs her alipins. unfortunately, that was "us" before. but now, i guess... rebellion runs in our course. hahaha :)

as if getting a 2.5 wasn’t enough, sir jay just had to release our tecthe4 course cards on that day too. the whole class got one grade. 1.0. hallelujah! frak. good-bye DL. good-bye candidacy for cum laude. good-bye hope. hello hell. frak!

i’m wondering if he’s happy right now that he’s given us a piece of his mind. better yet, i’m wondering if ms. alfon is cheering in her seat after getting what she wanted. she told us once, “…i am going to make sure that you lose your scholarships. you don’t even deserve a grade. you deserve a 0.0.” imagine the orc from LOTR then read what she said again. frak, I am so mean.

so there goes my school-life birthday. i’ve always wondered what it feels like to have classes or be in school on my birthday. well, it seems like I got my answer. Hahahaha J good-bye trimestral plaque for me.

one more thing. sir jay mentioned that, “you make your own grades. Wala namang personalan ditto eh.” BULLSHIT! hahahahahaha :) and he’s going to tell one of my friends that ms alfon said that she’ll fail him if attitude was the basis. or that ms. alfon was going to bring us down and make sure we fail miserably just because we didn’t want to be her “alipin” in doing ‘the birds’ anymore? Oh yeah, did I mention that ms. alfon said that, “go ahead and quit ‘the birds,’ but make sure that your thesis is good. because I will fail you. and I won’t make any considerations anymore.” Uh, tell me again what CONNECTION “the birds,” our SHOW CONTROL defense, and our THESIS has with one another? Really now, I want someone to enlighten me. Because now that they’re saying that “walang personalan,” I can only tell them one thing – BULLSHIT.

well, my birthday wasn’t all THAT bad. J I got a teddy bear and bracelet from migs. hee hee :) then, a lot of my friends greeted me and Hannah, rug, Jackie, arnie, dane, and rox sang “happy birthday” for me, esp. when we received the 1.0 course cards. Hahahaha :) as I said, my birthday was an emotional rollercoaster. I believe that this will be one of my most unforgettable birthdays ever. :)

but really, i still thank God for my birthday :) ate out that night at eastwood :) hee hee :) tsarap!

the wheel of life

me and achi [admu grounds]











sometimes you're up while sometimes you're down. up and down. like a seasaw. a ferris wheel. a tire.

first and foremost, a big KUDOS to my dear and beloved achi :) she got her well-deserved ADMU diploma marked cum laude. :) a big congratulations to her! she deserves every wonderful thing that she's experiencing right now. :) i love her so much. :)

that's the up side of my life.

finals is nearing. the worst is my thesis defense. i'm writing a research paper, not a thesis. --> that's my prof's statement. it's my problem. oh well, good luck to me.

that's me going down under.