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9/07/2004

.:. Bad Colds… .:.

Bad Colds…

Here I am, blogging offline. I think is the first offline blog ill actually post on RidRams. But this post is supposedly for Tuesday (hopefully by the time I actually post this it would still have been yesterday). Well, its evening already and, as you all might presume, im home, listening to the repeatedly driven music in my playlist on WMP. Actually, I was online several times today but “circumstances” didn’t give me the chance to blog…
Such circumstances are actually the very things I wanted to blog about…those circumstances w/c kinda had my day starting out BAD…real bad…

I woke up 4am, sadly, at the wrong side of the bed. It wasn’t the time really, it was just I should have gotten up much earlier to make the outline of my report in bio 140 coz the previous night I planned on sleeping right after dinner and eventually waking up refreshed at about 1am. Unfortunately, things didn’t go as according to plan.

Well, in the middle of my peaceful slumber, I was awakened at the vigorous vibrating of my phone (trust me, its capability is outrageous…IT WOKE ME UP!)…well, a friend just sent me a text message. It was 11:30 of that previous evening. It was one of those kinda messages w/c will have you guilty for not replying…and that effect went on till 12:30am until I refused to open my eyes and read anymore msgs. Well, what would you expect…ignoring my alarm, I slept on till 4am.

So it was hectic this morning….and what had to top it off was out of nowhere I began sneezing. Man, it was terrible…my nose was literally flooding with occasional explosions w/c had my nose red as a rose. Haay…imagine the irritability I felt when I was trying my best to concentrate inorder to come up with a decent outline. I could hardly type a single sentence straight considering my two hads are busy with all the “dripping” and “Ha-CHOOO-ing”…that’s equal to 3 saturated handkerchiefs.

Well, eventually I was able to finish everything, had breakfast and shower…but my Colds was still there. The printer here, at home, is broke so most of my reports I print elsewhere. Well, when I was just about to leave to do my usual routine of going to the internet café early morn…on the act of saving my report on a diskette…I dunno…it couldn’t save…this darn msg kept popping up that my diskette wasn’t formatted…w/c was the very same diskette I used to copy my speech last Monday. I was irritable especially with the bad colds. It took me several tries with all the other old diskettes I have until I finally convinced myself to buy a new diskette. I grew even more irritable and impatient…It wouldn’t have been no big deal, considering that I can easily bike to the bookstore, if it wasn’t scorching HOT…and there still was that irritating Colds…imagine this…biking, sneezing, sweating…that’s the worse combination I can think of…

I thought hell would have been over arriving home with a new diskette…after drinking lots and lots of water and 5 minutes of doing nothing but sit in front of the electric fan, to my horror..the new diskette wasn’t even working. Man…I cursed a lot….i guess that moment would be one of the last experiences I want to relive…
Convincing myself that nothing else can be done except for writing the report down and typing it again in an internet café, I endured another round of trying to concentrate inorder for me to quickly write down the outline on a sheet of yellow pad paper. The irritation, pain and torture is indescribable…I guess it was enough to say, It was just Hell.

Had enough? My end didn’t just end there…it was still 9 in the morning and I still haven’t practiced my speech in whole w/c was to be presented at around 1pm. Well, it was kinda early so I thought, knowing I can still type at a relatively fast pace, I still might have enough time to practice and join in my 11:30am class once im able to print my bio140 report. But guess what…just when I was halfway through my outline, sitting calmly at my favorite internet café…the POWER went out…!!! The whole economic block of UPLB experienced power failure…

Grabeh ung araw na to…

I was so pissed…well, I was supposed to meet innah, a friend, at the physical science building at around 10am coz she wanted to give me a late bday present…so, with all the burning rage…I decided to burn out all my anger as I wait for the clock to strike 10am. Eventually…my rage ran out of gas and so did my nose began to cool off a bit…it was only when I felt better did I notice that the campus wasn’t experiencing the same power failure at Grove “the economic downtown of LB”…and I realized that there university coop has a small internet shop w/c ran the same electrical line as most of the campus buildings…and then sprang Hope.

So, feeling much better, I got to meet innah…got my gift, w/c was a red “bench” cap (very nice…wasn’t able to wear it tho coz I was wearing gel), and hanged out a bit with her trying to rub off the remaining bad feelings.

An hour later I decided to head off to the coop center….
“sorry sir, walang available computers”…haay, now the heat was getting at my nerves…and so did some occasional “sniffs” w/c had me worring that another nose trauma was on its way. Thank God, nothing happened…and also eventually I was able to sit in one of the PC units.

I was finally able to produce the furnished outline of my report at a quarter to one in the afternoon that gave me about 15 minutes to mentally prepare for my speech comm. Class wherein I had to presented my speech. Yes, I wasn’t able to fully prepare/practice and I was absent in my math 1 class - goodness knows how much absences I had in that class.

But the speech went fine…I knew my speech was furnished so I really just had to concentrate with the presentation. You know, eye contact, proper breathing…pretending that the speech was created spontaneously…well, I was holding a copy and was occasionally glancing at it….but I made sure it didn’t seem as if I was just reading or didn’t just memorize it as well. With a bit of slips here and there and a couple of Filipino expressions I just couldn’t do away with…the speech did come to an end w/o any major disaster. Hahaha…I also just wanted to add that my articulation and a bit of the slang (relative to the Filipino pronunciation) accent was able to captivate the audience wherein I actually was able to fool myself that they were actually interested in my speech. Maybe they were…but no one can tell. Atleast I was able to eye contact several people who “seemed” as if they were absorbing every word I spat out. oh well, nevertheless, joey told me that the only major problem was my breathing…I was too stressed out during the speech. Joey refused to tell me my grade…I just have to wait for next meeting.

The colds was finally gone…and I was feeling much better since I was able to finish my speech.

The Bio140 report, w/c was the reason for my sufferings, went swell just as well. (yuk…that had to rhyme)…but to sum it all up in a word: it was comical. Well, the outline wasn’t that great and I wasn’t able to finalize a continuous and logical flow of my report (the phylogeny of cyanobacteria) so during the whole report I was trying hard to make my report come out naturally and comprehensive. And as all reports end in bio140, the ruthless questions thrown at the reporters by the professor was comical as well. Hmmm…well, she (the professor) did say “are you playing around with me?” hahaha…I guess I was too tired and carefree to answer directly and in a serious manner.
Ex. (I was reporting on RUBISCO) Prof: so class….where have you heard about RUBISCOs?.. J (piping in…in a rather choral manner ): sa crackers (rebisco) maam… *class laughs* ; Prof: jasper, where are cyanobacterias more abundant…marine or freshwater? J (with much confidence…actually I don’t know the answer): sa marine po (thinks again)…ksi mas maraming sea compared sa freshwater… *class laughs again*

Hey, I couldn’t help to act a bit stupid. Besides, the inquirers was always thought of as one of the least-liked part of the report, especially in cases where the reporters do not know the answers. Hello? Out of this world din ung mga tanong ni maam. So my acting stupid was more of an ice breaker…hehehe. Nevertheless, I was able to smartly answer several hard questions as well (these questions were ones I knew).

And do you know what maam had to say about the report…
“this is why I like you guys to report ksi we all get to learn something new…(so I was already assuming she was pertaining to the knowledge that we were able to impart to the class)…oh dba? Na-discover natin na meron pla mgling mg salita sa grupo nila…*points to one of my groupmates (actually, I felt she was over doing her articulation) then looks at me*…and si….anu nga name mo?…si jasper may magandang speaking voice…”

wow…and just when I thought she liked the report.

Atlast, over ung day. I was able to meet joey again and we went to an internet café where he had to meet a student and I did my regular surfing. To my delight, joey treated me to brewed coffee and oreo, and just when I realized I haven’t paid for my computer rentals I knew he paid for it as well.

The student joey met was one of the cast in tilamsik ng dugo. Zsa zsa, who I found myself walking with towards the baker hall…joey went home and left the two of us…I felt kinda embarrassed, coz when joey was still there I was kinda suplado towards her, and was wanting to walk on ahead. However, joey before he departed did say…”entertain mo si zsa zsa ha?”…and I just had to put an immediate “front act”…well after 40-50 meters, I was able to eventually drop the act and began to be the natural friendly me.

Finally at baker, I was trying to confirm if training was cancelled, some of the varsity members I met during the day told me so. though there was a bit of miscommunication and I had to bike home to change to my training clothes, I still was able to bond with several of the varsity members w/c was worth while.

At around 6.30pm, I received final word from coach himself that training will be postponed to Thursday. So, I got up…decided to send a message to ider saying to meet me at the humanities steps. She has become one of the persons I’ve become fond of and enjoy relating my day…(hehehe, I wonder if she does realize?) but well, sadly, she was kinda busy and did apologize (well she really need not but it was nice of her to)….

And that’s how I ended up here…or rather how this began. 2 hours lapsed and dad’s done with his dinner…

I guess I should start on my meal before it goes cold…

Till next post.

losing my grip. [9:08 PM]

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