on valentines, achievement tests, and high-tech flyswatters

Have you ever seeen a flyswatter that kills flies using electric shocks? I have, when I went home for the first time this year. That's not saying much, since the year has hardly begun (for goodness' sakes I still write 2006 when I put down dates. Or 2005. Or maybe that's just me), but it says something. I have a house in Manila and all, and a family here, but it isn't the same as being home. Imagine being in a very efficient, air-condidtioned, DSL-connected personalised dorm. Now that sounds better than what I originally wanted it to sound like, and that's a first. Usually when I try to put ideas into words the words sound worse than the ideas by a lot.

I don't exactly know what to say about the achievement tests, since my moods then were so mad and turbulent and weird. More weird than anything, since they swung from high point to low point back to high point again. Like China's dynastic cycle. Or like transverse waves. (I can practically hear my classmates saying, "Nerd!!!")

( How not to study for an Algeb. achievement test.... )

On the whole, except for Geom., the achievement tests were okay. And as for Geom.? I found it harder than Algeb.. Well, actually, no, I didn't, but I was able to finish the Algeb. test, and not the Geom. one. I love the Geom. concepts and equations and especially so the proving, but I have quite a lot of trouble with arithmetic. Really. I kept on getting wrong answers due to stupid mistakes in addition or multiplication.

(Ngayon ko lang napansin, ang last part ng "multiplication" ay "cation"... Wala lang.)

( Now I'll say something weird (two cuts from my notebook). )

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Over the mad course of this week, I have strangely enogh become close friends with the classmate mentioned above. No names here, since many (now I'm deluding myself. Practically NO ONE knows about this blog. Well, okay, some know of its existence, but not enough to be considered as many) may react immediately, or jump to conclusions. This classmate was once called my best friend by transitivity, and maybe in a way he has become one of my best friends, and I've been with him practically the entire week.

And everyone I know is misinterpreting.

And now I'm even feeling a bit guilty since he has to deal with the {everyone I know}'s misinterpreting as well as my inanity and my black (not literally) moods. And he has dealt with it.

Enough said for now.

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Valentine's Day was a bit mad, but then again, it has always been. What else do expect from a day named for an all-but-legendary saint?

Many called it Single Awareness Day (abbreviated as SAD, so one is greeted, "Happy SAD!"), and written on our class blackboard was the following:

corny day 2day <--- sa mga inggit
Happy Valentine's Day!!! <--- for lovers
Single Awareness Day <--- sa mga luhaan

I kept laughing. I couldn't help it. Champaca can do that to you.

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The best achievement I have achieved during the achievement tests: I didn't fall asleep during the English test!!!!

Everyone was proud of me.

---

And today was also mad. The student teachers/administration were in full force today, and our two classes with student teachers- Geom. and Physics- were insane, in the Champaca fashion. I kept laughing during Geom.. All of us were, but I was the only one laughing during the quiz, since I kept forgetting to divide triangle areas by two.

I could say a lot more, since there's a lot more to be said. A lot more behind the brilliance and the insanity. Some reasons for brilliance, some darkness, a reason the darkness was overcome. But I'm not posting it. Some things cannot be shared, since they lose their magic when they are.

on valentines, achievement tests, and high-tech flyswatters

Have you ever seeen a flyswatter that kills flies using electric shocks? I have, when I went home for the first time this year. That's not saying much, since the year has hardly begun (for goodness' sakes I still write 2006 when I put down dates. Or 2005. Or maybe that's just me), but it says something. I have a house in Manila and all, and a family here, but it isn't the same as being home. Imagine being in a very efficient, air-condidtioned, DSL-connected personalised dorm. Now that sounds better than what I originally wanted it to sound like, and that's a first. Usually when I try to put ideas into words the words sound worse than the ideas by a lot.

I don't exactly know what to say about the achievement tests, since my moods then were so mad and turbulent and weird. More weird than anything, since they swung from high point to low point back to high point again. Like China's dynastic cycle. Or like transverse waves. (I can practically hear my classmates saying, "Nerd!!!")

( How not to study for an Algeb. achievement test.... )

On the whole, except for Geom., the achievement tests were okay. And as for Geom.? I found it harder than Algeb.. Well, actually, no, I didn't, but I was able to finish the Algeb. test, and not the Geom. one. I love the Geom. concepts and equations and especially so the proving, but I have quite a lot of trouble with arithmetic. Really. I kept on getting wrong answers due to stupid mistakes in addition or multiplication.

(Ngayon ko lang napansin, ang last part ng "multiplication" ay "cation"... Wala lang.)

( Now I'll say something weird (two cuts from my notebook). )

---

Over the mad course of this week, I have strangely enogh become close friends with the classmate mentioned above. No names here, since many (now I'm deluding myself. Practically NO ONE knows about this blog. Well, okay, some know of its existence, but not enough to be considered as many) may react immediately, or jump to conclusions. This classmate was once called my best friend by transitivity, and maybe in a way he has become one of my best friends, and I've been with him practically the entire week.

And everyone I know is misinterpreting.

And now I'm even feeling a bit guilty since he has to deal with the {everyone I know}'s misinterpreting as well as my inanity and my black (not literally) moods. And he has dealt with it.

Enough said for now.

---

Valentine's Day was a bit mad, but then again, it has always been. What else do expect from a day named for an all-but-legendary saint?

Many called it Single Awareness Day (abbreviated as SAD, so one is greeted, "Happy SAD!"), and written on our class blackboard was the following:

corny day 2day <--- sa mga inggit
Happy Valentine's Day!!! <--- for lovers
Single Awareness Day <--- sa mga luhaan

I kept laughing. I couldn't help it. Champaca can do that to you.

---

The best achievement I have achieved during the achievement tests: I didn't fall asleep during the English test!!!!

Everyone was proud of me.

---

And today was also mad. The student teachers/administration were in full force today, and our two classes with student teachers- Geom. and Physics- were insane, in the Champaca fashion. I kept laughing during Geom.. All of us were, but I was the only one laughing during the quiz, since I kept forgetting to divide triangle areas by two.

I could say a lot more, since there's a lot more to be said. A lot more behind the brilliance and the insanity. Some reasons for brilliance, some darkness, a reason the darkness was overcome. But I'm not posting it. Some things cannot be shared, since they lose their magic when they are.