the year is near to a close

 its a week before Christmas and this is the time when we are all rushing to get our Christmas list done. unfortunately for me, I havent started one yet. I have gift ideas but I cannot figure out which to really give. I'd love to give everyone gifts but since getting my first paycheck, ive been saving for the rainy day, or in this case, im saving for 2012.

no, im not getting married.

im trying to save for another set of tuition and fees, thanks to graduate studies. this will be for real graduate studies. i still have to decide between law school or a masters course in either governance or politics, well those are all the options i have, and it is tough to think of. there are the career options open for either courses and the likelihood that i'll stick to what i really want. REALLY WANT is a debate right now as to WHAT THEY WANT. good to really ponder on for a long time.

so in the spirit of off-season (no work), i am given the chance to think of my future as a student again. as long as by this time next year, i should have taken entrance tests already, and that civil service exam by summer. oh, need to hit those books again i guess....

Writing

I've been wanting to write coz I surely miss it, yet what can I write about?

Honestly, I have three drafts and maybe a dozen other things to write about. My aim was to put up another blog site just to detail my rants and cheers to the Orioles but that never progressed due to (gasp!) lack of time. Yes, as much as I am "unemployed", I do not have enough time to deal with all the things I want to deal with. Why is it always like that? Coz when you are unemployed, you are everyones errand girl, you are everyones slave, you hear everyone say "can i ask you a favor?" (and you end up saying, "sure!").

I'm not ranting on those things really, its just that my hopes to put up a new blog was put on the side. I ended up throwing 140 characters (spaces included) on Twitter every 15 seconds. Sometimes, due to time difference, I end up sleeping during live games. Somehow I failed on my aim to practice my writing by pouring my heart out on something I like to do. Its tough being me (a reason that we always hear, right?).

Yet I have been doing writing lessons for kids these days. Wait, change kids to young adults. Its summertime and besides the need to polish my brothers writing, I wanted to gauge my cousins as well. Weeks ago, I asked them to write down five songs that they really like, and later on revealed to them the task at hand. They were fearful when they heard that they had to write. Write a three paragraph review of each song that they picked. I thought it was awesome, they thought otherwise. So I subjected five kids into writing without their permission? What happened afterwards is a nice study/ observation/ experiment for either behavior specialists or psychologists.

The youngest was the only one to accomplish five essays on the prescribed time period. My brother submitted his completed work three days after the prescribed time. My girl cousin finished the first essay right away, the second essay was submitted a day after the needed submission time, and essays 3 to 5 are not yet submitted. My two other cousins did not do anything, sadly.

It is such a hard task to impose writing to kids these days. With all the information on their hands, they do not make use of it by using their minds to analyze information and pour out their opinions about these. They pour out their energy using the internet as a means to play computer games, watch episodes of their favorite shows, and use social networking sites to know what the latest scoop on AI, on show business, or whats the latest emo song. It is tough being older and not seeing them spend their time doodling on paper, reading love stories or detective stories, writing phrases then sentences then essays. It is hard that they do not know how to properly express themselves in writing.

Writing for me is the best means to express oneself, and I do admit that I do get the moods too when writing. In numerous occasion I feel that anything I write does not make sense. It seems like I lack the complete thought or I was not able to equip my essay with words that makes itself understandable to the reader. I too encounter times when I do not feel like I am writing the way I should or that I lack the level of writing that I have put on myself. I always wish to be better, I wish to always improve my writing. But how do I even find out that I want to improve my writing?

BY WRITING, what else?

One of the tips in writing that I kept on telling them was that to know and improve how you write, you must write. There is no other way to know these things but to do it. You have to keep on doing it and have someone read it so you'll know how you fare. Later on you'll get the knack on writing and end up editing your own work because you have practiced it repeatedly. Writing is a trial and error process. Even the best writings can be improved by supplying better words or re-phrasing, whenever the need is there. Not only you exercise your writing skills but you exercise your brain, language skills, analytical skills.

It seems like a dead end task when they don't take things seriously as you do, but I am not giving up. I will think of ways to make them write, to let them understand that polishing their writing skills is important to do now than have their teachers criticize them. Oh Lord have mercy! Please shine the light on them.

walking zombie's also need to laugh

yes. my blood is made of caffeine, and zombies like me need to laugh once in a while.
i found this ad in Facebook. FTW! Lol!

who is "Hugh Selection"?

im high on stress and coffee

ah! three more days of stress, and its done. welcome summer!
other news: Guthrie is giving me added stress. stop giving them homers!!!

4/15 (4)

is it still early to say that we are going to lose? i mean, we have 3 runs and Rangers have 12, and its what? top of the 5th? lets see whats up maybe... i hope for perfect slates but if we cannot have perfect slates, maybe 2/3 games is better than none. =) but im ssssttttiiiiilllll hoping for something good.

and for some entertainment, here are some doodles from my notebooks (yes, notebooks).

4/3

 its official. im on Spring Break. =D

term of the day

Greater Fool Theory
im not sure if any of us don't know this yet.

beating the buzzer

*** as i was typing the title to this post, my buzzer just went off.***
i like beating the buzzer, but then there is this buzzer i hate being ahead of coz it means that i'll be tired later on the day. its called the alarm clock. my phone has a better alarm sound now where the sound is booming but subtle to the ears, not one that you'd like to crush for giving you a heart attack. i can even set it that the radio will wake me up to some cool sounds, but after several attempts to listen to cool sounds, all i get was the static radio waves that makes you think of any scary movie that the ghost will show up at any time.

so today i did set my alarm so i can wake up pretty early to finish up some studying. its usually better for me to study like this, well rested, much determined to get things done. but then i woke up at 4:37am wanting to go back to sleep! i was ahead of this damn thing again by an hour and a half! sheesh! it shouldve been nice because you can get things done, but if you sleep at around 12 midnight, then things get a little different. u realize that u have to sit on 1.5 hour lectures for three subjects and you feel like praying that you will not fall asleep in class.

now, im blogging. the bad thing about in between studying. the up side to this? hey! this sounds okay than my previous posts. oh well!

PS: My Boys on TBS will start today at 1030pm. Why do they show this late?

and oh my sweetness! (a sarcasm)

so since this morning, at around the time i posted my first blog for this day, i checked my email and it says there that i have this online homework to finish up. between very sleepy eyes at 5am, i started doing the pretest which was easy coz i see the green check and that means ive been getting things right. i slept again after an hour, and since 8 am, when i woke up again, i continued with the other homeworks, especially the graded ones. i cannot concentrate properly since im at home right now and the phones that i have to answer kept on ringing. but i was like, i have to finish it, i have to finish it before 11pm tonight.

and then not too long ago, i saw that the due date is 02.11.09 (Wed).

oh great!!!

stuck

i KNOW i have this huge list of things to do, but i CANNOT figure out where to start. its like MAD. its like CRAZY. its really making me get STUCK into this cork board of to do's but do not know which is HIGH priority.

what should be the first one, anyway?

me and MS Word: not a good match

this whole semester, or so far this semester, i found myself having an anxious and scary relationship with my MS Word. what? every time i look at that blank new page, i freak out. its like, "is this the page i have to fill?" i feel scared. i feel like i cannot put anything on it. i feel like i cannot type. i feel like whatever i was thinking of earlier dissolves into thin air when i see that clear new page from MS Word. what is this all about? i blog too much i guess. that is why i have this other blog site on blogger where i type my thoughts and then transfer it to MS Word when im done or when i need to edit it. but i think i cannot keep on doing that. i dunno why this is happening. i can write more even on paper than straight to Word. hoh well!

stress related vomiting

eeeewww!!!

anyway, i didnt vomit, but i feel like it. its like i wanted to vomit frustration out of my whole system. i wasted hours just looking at my sources and it feels like i didnt process it the way i should, and when i get the streak of hope and idea, thats when things go awry. it feels like shit!!!

deadlines suck! school papers suck! i have a week more for the paper, but with all the things that i have to do, i just want things to go the way i want it to be. (like do all these things and then have time to also watch a movie)

oh mother of heavens! bring me the light of knowledge!!!

schedule

- short paper (next week)
- long paper (two weeks)
- readings (every meeting)
- online class
~ readings due every 3 days
~ home works every week

this is what im expecting the next couple of weeks. isnt this the month of OktoberFest? please let the beer flow to my end!!! =))

is it music video day today?

 
hihihi! Capitol Swell started it, Blue Ryder followed, and now... me. =D

actually, i wasnt really meaning to follow, but the funny thing was i suddenly hummed this tune out of nowhere. the least i can tell you about the song is that according to the webs, the translation of the title "Ni Yao De Ai" is "The Love You Want". and how i encountered this is because this was one of the songs of the most loved Taiwanese show dubbed into Filipino, "Meteor Garden" which was based on a manga called "Hana Yori Dango" that when translated is "Boys Over Flowers"(?)

interesting, huh?

yes. while looking for this video, i saw myself back into that crazy state where i cheered for San Cai and Dao Ming Xu, but never mind them when I've got my eyes on Xi Men (Ken Xu)

i stop here. thats a bounty of links for you now... and i shall continue my quest to find the episodes.... =D

what is the best energy drink?

i think the answer is none. there will not be a single energy drink or high in caffeine drink that will keep me up and running when i am absolutely tired. not that its not working, the problem is that there is not one energy drink that makes me think straight while it gives me energy. its like your washing machine is working but you didnt put any soap to wash your clothes. nothing is happening.

so i am ranting. i need some brain power too besides my staying power to get going. i can think of a nice sentence to put together for this blog, yet it has not turned on the switch for thinking power for a project. i just need to get my writing self with the concentration power get back to me.

Adult ADHD

stock market and poker

i honestly do not know both, but i am learning.

thanks to online game sites where they allow you to have fake money to invest (for stocks) and fake chips to deal (for poker), i am learning step by step, by trial and error, what these two "games" are about. with poker though, there are times when i do not know how i am winning. i learn really by trial and error, with the fear that, will i know how to deal when this is for real? i dunno, but ive not played it in a while, coz when i started playing it months ago (its a facebook app, by the way), it makes me stay up till 3am just to keep on winning and get some chips (to which on most occasions i did succeed).

the other one is something i am doing for school right now. our homework is to do some research on our experience with trading stocks in Investopedia.com. its fun coz u get to have $100K to start with, and by mid October, you have to see how you've grown or lost. The fun part is that you can throw in your money to any real company on the market (ie: Amazon or Apple), and then see where your stocks go. the first one i bought was a company with the stock symbol APL, thinking it was Apple. so i checked the status of my stock today and it says it went up by 0.06% which isnt so bad right? come to think of it, it wasn't Apple Computers. it was a steel company. still, i had mark-up so im happy. so i went looking for Apple. at today's closing, it went down by -3.1. with a high price for the stock (around $175), i wasnt ready to throw in more money, so i bought just one and see where it goes by Monday. hoping that things will work better by monday, then i can throw in some more. this weekend, i could look up a couple more companies and try my luck. i mean, thats what the whole stock market paper is all about. researching and investing, and simply playing with the market.

its a fun way to learn. simulation is the next textbook really. =)

yesterday was three strikes

(1) O's lost yesterday
(2) Federer lost yesterday
(3) my school team, the De La Salle Green Archers lost yesterday.

oh well! better luck next time.

Let's Play...errr... Learn!

 

Japanese students schooled with NintendoReuters
TOKYO - Nintendo is banned everywhere but the classroom at Tokyo Joshi Gakuen school in Japan as the ubiquitous DS consoles become the latest tool in English instruction.
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"Our school policy is English education should be fun."

 

how about an iTouch based learning?

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all it takes is an email, and i am free!

sayonara spring 08!

i need to make a date with my bed.