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Oh well… The third week of classes is still on. And so far it’s getting to my nerves slowly. Just imagine my fate.
1. Luna Sea – Rain
2. Rip Slyme with QURULI – Nightrider [RIP SLYME version]
3. Orange Range – Yarisugi Manbou
4. Fruits Basket OST – Memory ~For You~
5. Ringo Shiina – Love is Blind
6. BLEACH OST – Life is Like a Boat
7. Antique Cafe – Mousou Aikouka
8. Chrno Crusade OST II – Seiken he no Kibou
9. FLCL – I Think I Can
10. Asian Kung-Fu Generation – Flash Back (2004 Kokuei Hitachi Kaihin Koen)
11. Porno Graffitti – Taneuma Rider
12. Mihimaru GT – Travel -TAKE 06-
13. W-inds – Yakusoku no kakera
14. Lamune – Summer Vacation
15. High and Mighty Color – Enrai ~Toku ni Aru Akari
16. Miyavi – Gigpig Boogie
17. Plastic Tree – Naizou Maiku
18. Hyde – Sweet Vanilla
19. Gazette – Psychedelic Heroine
20. [FIGURe;] – Kashikoi Deorei no Oroka na Sentaku
21. Psycho le Cému – Universe
22. L’Arc~en~Ciel – Winter fall
23. Asian Kung-Fu Generation – Kaiga Kyoshitsu
24. DNAngel Vocal Collection – Yasashii Gogo
25. Ellegarden – Salamander
26. Can-goo – Face
27. Creature Creature – Sen no Yamiyo ni
28. Beck OST – Moon on the Water
29. Yakitate!! Japan – To All Tha Dreamers
30. MADLAX – Inside your heart
31. Blood+ – Aozora no Namida
32. Dir en Grey – Agitated Screams of Maggots
33. Beck OST – Youkai Ningen Bem
34. Miyavi – How to Love
As I mentioned, today marks the third week of my classes in UST as a third-year second-semester computer science student. And it isn’t so hard *the evidence being that I’m still sane enough to say it isn’t so* but it needs three things: responsibility, responsibility, and Sir Vergil’s favorite, responsibility.
I’m now swimming in unchartered waters of Data Communications, Systems Analysis, Database Management, Object-Oriented Programming in Java, and Compiler Design. It’s infested with sharks donning dunce caps and jellyfish spouting the foulest of America’s cursing words. Not to mention you need laps in it to go through the summer internship. Heh heh.
Looking back, I would say I think I would fare better here than last semester. Like a 5% additional passing rate. I landed in familiar hands in Ma’am Mich, Sir Jess and Ma’am Cha, some of the best teachers I had in ICS. New teachers include Mr. Tanal and Mr. Barrello, which I hope would give their best in imparting us with the best they can offer. But in my minor subjects, I would say I’m in scalding water. Or in lava.
My APP subject *art appreciation* is again… handled by Heil Hitler. Or the “Bulog” *don’t ask me for the definition* and definitely most of my classmates are still aghast over her re-emergence.
It’s definitely HUBRIS. I actually WANTED to transfer to another APP class, but the nearest and most feasible of schedules appeared at a time that would be next to impossible. So, I’ll just have to grit my teeth and keep on prodding and doodling and laugh at her blunt *but I admit witty* jokes, while having both mundane and excellence at the same time. So, there’s only one saying for this type of predicament: si vis pacem, para bellum (if you want PEACE, prepare for WAR).
The other minor subjects aren’t entirely bad. My SCL9 *regarding marriage and family* professor is Mr. Rodario, a very nice guy with a sunny disposition. A former seminarian *people who prepare for priesthood* who has some nice opinions on his own subject, well, here’s a professor who’s to my liking. Hope he doesn’t evolve for the worst like my previous theology professors. The PGC *Philippine Government and Constitution* is again handled by Ma’am Javier from my last ETAR subject, and I would just say it’s still the same jungle. Same banana peels at the floor. And same oil slicks.
And the first week… well, it went prety well. The second week, it upped the ante by getting a bit hard to hack at. This week, I expect nothing less than them giving us the guns to prepare for armageddon. But I just have to grit my teeth and keep moving on. You know, life goes on *which is also a song title* and I have nowhere to go on but up.
~whee…
Last week, my favorite Quiapo anime stand already has the NANA anime CDs! ~yay
But sadly, I didn’t have the current cash crop with me *it was 4 DVDs, and I already spent my money on five titles before I saw it being added to the box* and the ones I bought were really good, so have to abil out and ask the vendor to keep a copy for me to buy today. And after typing this whole entry, I’m off to buy it before Kate or any of my anime superfreakish friends Aaron and Melay finds it.
So far I’m off into my “Buy a Whole Bunch of Anime for Summer” plan for the second sememster.
I already bought Da Capo *the first season*, Triangle Heart, KashiMashi, Wish and Abenobashi Mahou Shoutengai. The first four are moderately on the safe side of Japan, mostly focusing on love comedy and relationships *although one was a yuri type of anime which I didn’t know it was* and the last one is a wild Gainax creation of comedic proportions like FLCL.
I now mostly buy anime I NEVER HEARD OF. Unlike last semester where I bought anime if I heard about it, I now look for those titles I have never heard or seen. Like the surprise element. Last semester I rarely bought anime I didn;t know. And I look at the cover if the art is good enough. If not, I usually don’t buy it. Probably Deathnote is an exception. The art isn’t enough to satisfy my taste, but the storyline and plot really is the beef steak.
But in my collection, I already have one yuri *mentioned earlier*, three yaoi *one was a prank gift, one was part of the ones I got from my anime superfreak friends who liked yaoi more than studying, and one was Loveless, which involved a kissing scene between two men*, twenty-five love-love anime series, and twelve serious anime series. Which amounts to more than 40. Not including the OVA Cds I have at my bunker.
But now I have to tighten my belt. I still have to set aside money for the AKFG album “Feedbackfile”, a DVD-RW drive, and some BLEACH trinkets and buttonpins. So, as much as I want lots, I have to tone down a bit of my drawn plan.
I have listened to the recent Dir en Grey single, “Agitated Screams of Maggots”, and it kinda went “AAARRGGGHHHH” “KYAAARRRRGGHHH” and like that. Quite a lot of screaming lyrics, by the way. I liked it, but I liked their previous single “Ryoujoku no Ame” way better. The other tracks included in the single was live versions of their songs, “Kodoku ni Shisu Yue ni Kodoku“, “Spilled Milk”, and “Obscure”, which were also good.
ABS-CBN went the bummerific way with the recent Pacquiao-Morales fight nite. They were delayed, so to speak, for about at least 30 minutes. What a zilch.
I didn’t care to go to the moviehouses to watch it LIVE because I don’t want to waste money. I could just give some friends of mine a ring and I could know the results as fast as five fingersnaps.
And since we don’t have cable TV, I just opted to lay down in bed and flick the stations with the remote control.
And I was right: The fight was only for about 3 rounds. So if I spent about P 240 for the cinema watch, I could just have gotten about 90 pesos worth of my money, including the popcorn, 2 poppycock undercards, and the airconditioning. Dame.
I was amused with ABS-CBN’s coverage of the fight. REALLY amused. They got these great graphics on TV, a premier newscaster on the panel, major sports commentators, a medium-sized studio crowd, and some pretty nifty other things to blast the other channels to dust. But they were the ones who were left eating dirt and a lot of shit.
When the real LIVE broadcast of the Pacquiao-Morales fight showed Manny as the winner, the cinema goers *including some friends of mine* texted the results at blinding speeds, and soon after about 10-15 minutes the majority of Filipinos were already rejoicing about the win. Not including people without phones and cellphones. And ABS-CBN was still performing the delusion that they are still live and showing the realtime fight. They were still in the second undercard when Pacquiao won. Soooo bad. Imagine a crowd clapping after a speech. Then after 30 kinutes another claps unannounced and unwelcomed. That’s the same with ABS-CBN.
They even had the gall to flood their broadcast with commercials that go redundant. Soooo really bad. In their desire for revenue, they showed less than 5 minutes of commentatings, clips, and talk banters while the next slide shows a boring slideshow of commercials that would be fodder for doctors to use to insomniacs who don’t respond to strong drugs. Then when Pacquiao won, they say MABUHAY and rejoices… late by 30 minutes, that is.
But Pacquiao really is the big winner. Really. He won megabucks and great deals to go with the win. I assume only two things: first, every company would want to make Pacquiao an endorser, second, if he wants to run for a political seat, he’d win by a landslide.
So the whole nation is a boisterous one last Sunday. And as for Team Pacquiao, congratulations for the win and good luck counting all the cash flow.
SIDENOTES:
1. At Team Terrible Morales, if you look closely enough at the singing of the national anthem, you can see the popular WWE SmackDown! wrestler Rey Mysterio waving the mexican flag inside the ring.
2. When Pacquiao won, and celebrations got inside the ring, one goddamned Filipino politician again got inside the ropes and gobbled his way for some pictorial space. Bad boy.
3. Morales took his defeat in stride. And nobody could put a bad light on him.
Briathrail // Albert 2MNG 
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