My Profs. !

I found UP high school great. Although UP doesn’t have great facilities, and I don’t care about it because I am only looking for the quality education UP can give me.

Just like what I have said, I am only after for the good education and nothing more, nothing less. If I have already described my classmates in the entries “Palmapithecus 1”, “Palmapithecus 2” and in “Endless”, here you are to read my description to my teachers, their subjects and on how they teach.

First in my list is my class adviser, Mme. Frances Nuñez. I found her a good mathematician but I don’t found her subject good. Maybe it’s because it is Algebra and there are a lot of numbers and it may be boring. But I am really eager to listen Mme. Nuñez’ lessons in order to have good grades.

Next is her co-adviser, Mme. Elisa Lapa. She is a strict teacher in Chemistry but she is a good teacher in life. One thing that I can always remember about her is when she says the line, “I don’t want to be remembered as the teacher who taught you how to balance equations instead I want to be remembered as the person who taught you how to balance your lives”.

Another teacher of mine is Mme. Sofia Logarta. She is our very good Social science teacher and our newspaper. I am telling sorry to Mme. Logarta because there are times that I really felt sleepy when we have our lesson.

Next to Mme. Logarta is Mme. Carvajal. She is our very cute Biology teacher. What I don’t like about her is that our periodical test will be cover to cover of our book.

And a good friend of Mme. Carvajal is next, he is no any other than Sir Nellas. He is our Home Technology and Health teacher. He is very good in gardening and I guess in everything. What I don’t like about his subject is it has many projects that need a lot of money.

Next to Sir Nelllas is Mme. Chona Kere. I met her during the opening of classes in the second semester. She is the replacement of Sir. Manlunas, so she is our Geometry teacher. She is beautiful and most especially a good teacher.

My Computer teacher is Ms. Hazel Avergonzado. She is really a certified computer master. She may be strict in class but when she is outside the computer laboratory, she is a good friend.

And like Ms. Avergonzado, still single, Ms. Joanne Macquilan. Ms. Macquilan is our Physical education teacher. She is beautiful, a good dancer, an athlete and handles the class very well. Although her subject is very tiring, at least it can make my body move and be alert.

Also like the two before her, she is also single, Ms. Cathy Rodel. She is a good singer, she plays different kinds of instruments and a good teacher. She has these descriptions because she is my Music teacher.

I also have my Filipino teacher, Ma'am Ligaya Rabago. I like this teacher of mine because she is frank. And also her passion for arts can really encourage me because I don't like arts.


Lastly, my fresh teacher, Sir Elmer Montejo. He is cute, he speaks English very well. So is that obvious? Of course, he is my English teacher. Although I am tired of making entries for this blog, I am happy because I can express my feelings very well.

So to my dearest teachers, thank you so much!

Backbiting, is it good or bad?

Are you a backbiter? I am sure that everyone knows what a backbiter or backbiting is. If you want I will define the word backbiting. This word means that to censure, slander the absence of a person. So can you answer my question now? Because if you will ask me if I am like that, my answer is “I am one of the many.”

You might observed that I am very frank and very straight in answering this kind of question, it’s because this is the true me. I may be frank but when I say a word it is with honesty. And I maybe the type of person that censures somebody but what I am telling are all my observations and I am not the only one who just observe these things but also many people is like me and agrees with me. There is nothing wrong if you are going to backbite anyone in my opinion. And I know maybe some of you disagrees with me but please don’t judge me directly, try to know me better.

Our group, my friends, when we are together we keep on telling things about what we have observed something on a certain person, and this something may be good or may also be bad. But when we tell ugly things about a person or if we criticize a person, what we are saying are all truth and nothing else but only the truth.

Based on what I have observed on my classmates, many really like the topic backbiting or criticizing a person with his or her absence. I know that this topic is really interesting for many people especially the backbiters in town because there you can also find out if you feel anger to a person, in short you can express your feelings on that certain person through backbiting. That may be the positive effect on backbiting but of course thee is also the opposite effect.

When many people are happy on backbiting, the person that they backbite on could really feel bad towards them. And if the time comes that his or her heart will be filled with anger, this can result to a big conflict against the two groups.

So I suggest if you have anger on a person don’t backbite her or him instead you must have a confrontation with that person.

Honestly, sometimes I can’t really define the word backbiting. It is because I am confused if what I am doing and what my friends are doing are a sort of backbiting stuffs. Because I don’t know if we are only telling the truth or we are already criticizing a person. But now I already know what is really the word backbiting means. For me, it is a word which means that you are telling things you have observed without knowing the real side of the story or without knowing the person that well.

In my view, it only needs respect. Because if we have respect to each other’s true self, we will not have chaos or any misunderstandings.

Reflection

Everyone has the right to love, he or she has the right to who will he or she is with for the rest of his or her life.

The story that I have read is entitled as “Love is a Fallacy”, by Max Schulman. Its story is not as romantic as Romeo and Juliet or even the love story of Jack and Rose. I may not yet feel the feeling of being in love but I am also a person, I have a heart that pumps my blood and pumps my feelings. Can you understand what I am trying to say? Just like my introduction, we are free to choose somebody who we really love. But why do sometimes other people is judging why we have chosen that kind of guy? Of course I am one of those, if I am going to compare the story of Polly and Max, I will also question Polly why she has chosen Petey over Max. It will just be fine with me if she chose Petey because if Petey is intelligent or handsome but choosing Petey just because of his raccoon coat! It’s nothing!

Max is an ordinary guy with extraordinary brains. He might not be that rich but maybe he got the looks. One thing I don’t like about Max is he gives high standards, which I guess no one other than Polly can reach it. But Max judges Polly just for one glance. As in, he judges Polly without knowing whom Polly really is. And this is one thing that I don’t like about some boys, they have great standards but they didn’t try to look and ask themselves if their standards are also fit for them.

I love the part when Max and Polly were together. Max is very sweet with Polly although there are times that Max is hot tempered. And the part when Max proposes his love for Polly was very sweet. The setting where Max proposes and most especially the word he used was really deep and you can really feel his sincerity and true love. And I like that very much. Like what I have said, I found it very sweet. And when the time comes that a guy will have a proposal to me and of course we must know each other very well, I may definitely give the boy a yes most especially when he has the sincerity and love for me.

But Polly had changed the mood of the sweet night. She answered Max with fallacies which Max taught her. I don’t know why Polly was like that, I thought she also likes or even loves Max, but I was wrong. All I know, I can’t get over with the last line in the story. It says there that Polly had chosen Petey just because of a raccoon coat!

If I were Max, I must not have taught the fallacies to my love because maybe he will use it against me.

So one thing that I can only advice Max and other guys in town is, you must not extenuate people because of that, because of this. You must know the person very well before you estimate the person’s capability.

"A Summary of Max Schulman's "Love Is a Fallacy""

In the law school in University of Minnesota, there was an intelligent freshman namely Max. Max has a roommate named Petey Bellows. If max is cool, logical, keen, calculating, perspicacious, acute, and astute. His brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist's scales, as penetrating as a scalpel and to think he was still eighteen. But Petey Bellows, his just nothing without his raccoon coat! And in addition, he is the emotional type. Unstable. Impressionable. Worst of all, a faddist.

One afternoon Max found Petey lying on his bed with an expression of such distress on his face that Max immediately diagnosed appendicitis.

Despite of his feeling he tends to care for his raccoon. He spent his money, which is for textbooks just to buy for a raccoon coat and then he can’t get any. He wants a raccoon coat in order to be in the swim.

At one time Max saw Polly Espy. Max showed his desire for this young woman. Max was well aware of the importance of the right kind of wife in furthering a lawyer's career. The successful lawyers he had observed were, almost without exception, married to beautiful, gracious, intelligent women. With one omission, Polly fitted these specifications perfectly.

Polly was beautiful, gracious but intelligent she was not. But he believed that Polly would smarten up by his guidance.

He asked Petey if he loves Polly, Petey answered that he see each other a bit but they have their own dates.

Max was satisfied by Petey’s answer. And when Max was in a date with Polly they went and talked in Knoll.

They talked about logic. Different fallacies are their topics and the first fallacy is Dicto Simpliciter. An argument based on an unqualified generalization. For example: Exercise is good. Therefore everybody should exercise."

Polly said that exercise is wonderful. It builds the body and everything.

"Polly," max said that it was a fallacy.

Then they took up Hasty Generalization. After Hasty Generalization is Post Hoc.

For example, let's not take Bill on our picnic. Everytime we take him out with us, it rains.

Polly said that she knows somebody like that, a girl back home—Eula Becker. It never fails. Every single time Polly takes her on a picnic—

"Polly," Max said sharply, "it's a fallacy. Eula Becker doesn't cause the rain. She has no connection with the rain. You are guilty of Post Hoc if you blame Eula Becker."

Polly promised not to do that again. And she asked Max if he was mad.

Max answered that he was not.

Then Polly asked for more fallacies. And Max gave him the Contradictory Premises. After explaining this to Polly, he deposited her to the girl’s dorm and told her to see each other again the following night.

Still they met and situated under the oak tree. They talked about the Ad Misericordiam fallacy. And this is followed by Hypothesis Contrary to Fact. And lastly they talked about the fallacy “Poisoning the Well”.

After explaining all the fallacies to Polly, he thought that that was the right time to propose his feelings.

Max said, "Polly, I love you. You are the whole world to me, and the moon and the stars and the constellations of outer space. Please, my darling, say that you will go steady with me, for if you will not, life will be meaningless. I will languish. I will refuse my meals. I will wander the face of the earth, a shambling, hollow-eyed hulk.".

Rather than giving formal answers, Polly keeps on telling Max about fallacies.

And at the end when Max asked Polly to give him a logical reason why she wants to go steady with Petey.

Polly answered straightly, “he’s got a raccoon coat”.

Palmapithecus

My stay in UP high is really, really fun! Aside from learning advance lessons, I also met new friends when I entered in first year. And when I am already in second year, I met more friends. Just like in my entry “Wall” and “Endless”, I have already talked about some of my friends in my sophomore year but in this entry you can read my description among almost all of my classmates in II-Palma.

Next is Rowela. Until now she is my classmate in II-Palma. She is intelligent and also responsible. She is also a good joker although sometimes she is like deaf.

Like Rowela, Gener is also my classmate until now. He is known to be our computer master. But I am so curious about his gender but let’s not talk about it.

Another classmate of mine is Mikka. She is beautiful, sexy and most of all she is friendly. Although she is not that good in Filipino because all of my classmates know that she has her expertise when it comes to English.

Still a classmate of mine until now is named as Aiden. Many girls in the whole campus have a crush on him. And I don’t know why they like this guy or what this guy possesses. And also some of my friends have also crushed on Aiden.

My classmate when I was a Villamarsian and until now, are good artist, Nicole. Just like how I introduced her, she is really our artist. She is a good joker and she is a happy person.

After Nicole let’s go to her seatmate, Krystal. I can describe Krystal as beautiful, simple, a good singer and a good actress and most of all a very good person. She has also a very nice and neat penmanship.

Next to Krystal is Beverly. Beverly is also a good artist and most of all, our Biology girl. But when I see Beverly, I can’t help to remember what she has done to me although I already gave her forgiveness. So let’s forget about it.

Sitting beside Bevz is Neil commonly known as Guadz. He is a happy go lucky person. He has also sweat hands and that’s why Althea doesn’t like him to hold on to her.

At the front of Guadz is Grechelle. Although she is my new classmate, I found her silent yet fun to be with.

And still at the front of Grechelle is a good classmate of mine when we were still in first year, Faith. Faith is a good essay writer and maybe she will be known in the whole world without us knowing.

Beside Faith is April. Like Grechelle, she is also a new classmate of mine because she’s from I-Bartlett. She acts like a boy but it’s all right because she is a happy person. She also makes my day more beautiful because she hugs me.

Brigitte is up next. She acts like a child and it really fits her personality. But behind those childish acts is her intelligence. She is also playful.

And a good friend of mine, still when we were in first year, Ronald. Ronald is a mathematics master. It’s because he likes Geometry and Algebra. And in addition, whatever our teachers in these two subjects will give him, he can answer it and he is very confident. His primary concern during this summer is H.W.S.C. Meaning, Height, Weight and Skin Care.

A friend of Ronald is also one of my classmates in this school year she is Fatima. I am curious why Fatima looks like she’s going to cry whenever you asked her to stand up or to stay in the platform. Her friends tease her because of her eyes. But to you Fatima, you must not feel bad and you must be thankful because you have eyes.

Of course my neighbor, Hazel. She is an artist, possesses a good penmanship, a good actress and most of all a jolly person. What I don’t like about her is when I go to her house and we have already talked about the time, she is sometimes late. But I do understand her.

Next is our intramural muse, Rachel. Although we are classmates just in this school year I already knew something about her. She is beautiful, sweet, clever and most of all boys like her maybe because o her charm.

Let us talk some of the boys in or section. We have finished talking about Aiden, Ronald, and Guadz, now it’s Essem’s turn. Essem is my new classmate although I don’t know him that well I had a crushed on him. But this admiration is only about for a week or almost two weeks. So see, I really felt nothing about him. Aside from the information that I had a crushed on him he has also a sharp memory and most of all she has girls. But I ill not add more information about it.

Next in line is James. He was my groupmate during our investigatory project when we were first years. I like his crazy dance move his intelligence in proving and his curly hair. But one thing I don’t like about him is his narrow mind. But I won’t explain why.

Allan is third. He is also intelligent when it comes to mathematics and he has a crush on one of our classmates and I know it is pretty obvious.

Next to Allan is Roel. Honestly, I don’t know him well because were not that close and I have observed that he has his own world.

Lastly is my seatmate Kenneth. He is a good actor, joker and friendly. One thing I don’t like about his self is his being hot tempered and that’ all.

These are only some of my classmates. So for those who are not included, don’t worry because there might be a continuation. So keep on reading my blog, no just kidding. Go Palmapithecus!!!

Critique...

Watching television shows is my hobby. If you had already read my entry “Addictive” you will know that I am an anime lover or a big anime fan. And in that entry of mine I said that I prefer to watch anime shows rather than watching any other television shows. But in this entry you can read my comparison between the “telenovelas” and “koreanovelas”. And on how I will criticize “telenovelas” and “koreanovelas”. In addition, these are only some of my views and opinions between telenovelas and koreanovelas so please respect it.



To start of is the span of the shows that will be shown or aired in the television. Filipinos originally make telenovelas and the actors portraying roles are also Filipinos. But what I am angry with is that their story is so confusing. And in addition, telenovelas lasts for about more than a year or more. While koreanovelas lasts only for about a maximum of five to six months.

Another bases for comparison is the show’s story. Philippine shows are a lot different from the Korean shows, American shows or any other shows in other parts of the world. Because our drama shows here in the Philippines is you can really say that it is a dramatic show because there’s the word drama. So there are a lot of crying scenes and stuffs that makes me so bore and I am already immune to it. When there are crying scenes in the show I can’t cry because I get used to it and that’s why I don’t want to watch that certain show. While Korea’s drama shows, eventhough there are crying scenes but it is only a few compared with telenovelas. Although it is a drama show or drama series it is fun to watch because there are many funny scenes. And also their love scenes could really make you feel how they love each other. Although there are also love scenes in telenovelas, but sometimes I can’t fell that there is love between the two actors because they only tell the words “I love you” to each other then followed by a kissing scene. But I can’t feel the emotion, their affection or any sort of sweet feelings. Why don’t they try to follow or a sort of observe how koreanovelas work on the Filipino people or what has koreanovelas that the mass love about it.



Lastly are the actors. Actors play a big role in the production of the show. They must have the charm, the beauty and most of all the acting skills. I know that our actor complied my standards but I guess some of our actors are over acting. And in addition, the staffs of the production must experiment new love teams to tandem in a show and must this love team must not be over used.

In general, I am not telling our directors, writers and the whole staff in our entertainment industry to copy how koreanovelas or any other shows in other parts of the world map were made or to copy its story. What I am trying to say am that writers must have effective writing techniques and must have a huge and creative imagination that would really make the Filipino mass embrace his or her work. And in the whole entertainment industry, I have a big respect on you and a salute for all of you hardships in order for us to feel happy.

Boys will always be Boys!

Girls like boys but boys do you like girls? Of course boys like girls although some like or let me say feel the true love in their same sex. Comparing the two sexes there is a big and a lot of differences. Of course one of those many is the reproductive organ. But in this entry you will not or can’t read comparison between the two sexes instead you will know how I will describe the males on what they feel and on what they do.

First things first, we all know that girls are more emotional than boys are. But as far as I know, I guess boys are more emotional than girls. Because if you will compare the girls and the boys in what you see between your parents, oh! Boys or husbands are just keeping quiet when their wives are nagging at them. So boys can’t express their feelings very well and thus, they keep these things all by themselves or bottling all the negative vibes to their selves.

I must also say that boys aren’t expressive and are mysterious. Like our boys in our section they are full of secrets. When they court girls that they like, and when they become boyfriends and girlfriends, we don’t have any idea about this news. And thus, we can only know that they had a relationship when they broke up and boys don’t want to talk about it. And when somebody brings up the topic, he becomes irritated or sometimes really gets angry.

If a boy likes you, you must be happy. Because when almost all of the boys fall in love, they give everything although some are not but I am sure they have experienced it.

Do you want to know what thing I hated about the boys? It is they’re being “not stick to one”. Meaning although they already have their love of their lives, they keep on finding another girls in order to supply their thirst. But I am not generalizing that all of the men population do this do that instead I am only referring to some of the men who do this ugly things in the society and are hurting their girlfriends or their wives. I understand the boys because in this new generation girls are also doing the “left turn”. But I will go back to the boys’ thing. I will cite an example; I have this friend of mine who has already a girlfriend. But he is courting another girl without her girlfriend knowing it so as the courted girl; she doesn’t know that this friend of mine has a girlfriend. When the time came that his girlfriend saw both of them, at first her girlfriend thought that he was just with his classmate but when she saw his boyfriend kissed the girl, her north pole became the south pole. So she went near the two and first slapped the girl’s face and then jobs his boyfriend for about five times. Then the girlfriend explained the girl that the boy was her boyfriend then the courted girl also slapped the man’s face and was never been seen. So as a result, the boyfriend is left out with nothing but only a black eye.

In my opinion about that example of mine, it is just fine if you court someone if you already have a girlfriend because both of you are not yet married so you both have your freedom.

And girls please understand the boys in our society because they are only human, they are also hurt and they commit mistakes.

Because “boys will always be boys” no matter what.