MY SISTER SENT ME an email. I asked her to send it because I’ll be using its attachments. It contains two photographs, one of which was the medal I earned from a feature writing contest when I visited Tuguegarao.
The Narra medal
MY SISTER SENT ME an email. I asked her to send it because I’ll be using its attachments. It contains two photographs, one of which was the medal I earned from a feature writing contest when I visited Tuguegarao.
The Day My Mother Disposed the Oven Toaster
LIKE A MADLY-DRIVEN ANDROID, the policeman who was safeguarding a certain street in the city shouted at a driver. He almost gnashed his teeth when the latter parked his vehicle in front of a mall. Then, the policeman whacked the side of the vehicle that the passengers felt the impact of his steel baton-like hand against it. I knew that because I felt the impact too.
The policeman, obviously, was blown up in his madness. Is it right to whack the vehicle to the extent that the passengers will feel the impact? I suppose it’s not. I know it’s normal for a policeman to be strict and possess the commanding tone in his voice.
The policeman, obviously, was blown up in his madness. Is it right to whack the vehicle to the extent that the passengers will feel the impact? I suppose it’s not. I know it’s normal for a policeman to be strict and possess the commanding tone in his voice.
The “half dog”
THIS HALF-SLICED HOTDOG WAS our snacks yesterday during our retreat. It was thriftily drizzled with a mixture of ketchup and mayonnaise, stuffed in a typically-sized pair of half-sliced bread.
The new spelling of “exhausted”
IN ORDER TO ACCOMPLISH your TOS (The Outstanding Students) requirements, you would have to dash after every student and every professor and almost everyone who you need recommendation letters from. Then you would have to fill-in forms and you would have to defray for requests on records or certificates of moral character and so and so... In order to do that, you would have to climb the stairs from 1st floor to 4th floor and vice versa. You would have to print your curriculum vitae, which you would have to photocopy and distribute to those who you would want to believe in your skills (NOTE: This is a scenario seen on most students but not all).
Rasante
RASANTE – THE PHOTO LIGHTING, in which there are two strong opposing lights where the shifting is apparently seen like when the half of the face is so dark, while the other is so bright. (SOURCE: My brain that has processed data from a free photography seminar I recently attended.)
I forgot to tell Madame Ambassador that…
THE ACCOLADE THAT THE ambassador told me could have earned me a new career, I suppose. (Conversely, it increased my confidence regardless if it’s true or false.) However, I’m not the type who’s predisposed with the gift of public relation (PR). I don’t know how to acquire those skills to respond, with either verbal or non-verbal cues, to the behaviors and opinions of people in a juncture, occasion and the like.
Just as when someone tells you, “You’re hair looks terrific!” You may either say, “You’re joking but thank you!” or “It’s not on its pinnacle yet…”
Just as when someone tells you, “You’re hair looks terrific!” You may either say, “You’re joking but thank you!” or “It’s not on its pinnacle yet…”
French’s Mr. Photogenic?
“THIS TYPE OF FACE is the photogenic face for the French people… you stand out,” said Madame Ambassador as she was pointing to my face, which has blunt expressions.
My main point in feature writing
THE MOST PRECISE GUIDELINE in feature writing is that “it is to write in one’s own style.” After all, a “good article” is just a matter of perception (provided that there are no grammar errors).
Al Chris’ version of a gay-girl dialogue
ONCE UPON A TIME, a girl fell in love for a gay lover who she thought she can actually transform to a real man. This is not a fairy tail but a true story in AUF and I actually know the characters.
I even heard rumors saying the gay guy already confessed everything to this girl, even his sexual preference; thus the girl already entrusted her heart to him. However, their “relationship” (it shouldn’t even be called like that) lasted only for a second just like a drinking glass shattered against a concrete wall. The girl’s heart was broken, sardonically speaking.
With that, I just formulated my own dialogue-story, which I hope will make all gay men ponder about what they are doing with girls....
I even heard rumors saying the gay guy already confessed everything to this girl, even his sexual preference; thus the girl already entrusted her heart to him. However, their “relationship” (it shouldn’t even be called like that) lasted only for a second just like a drinking glass shattered against a concrete wall. The girl’s heart was broken, sardonically speaking.
With that, I just formulated my own dialogue-story, which I hope will make all gay men ponder about what they are doing with girls....
Unlicensed
PASSING THROUGH THE DUSTY track to leave the gym premise, I amble as I stoop my head to avoid conversing from a far-flung aloofness. Then, few steps nearer to the old-aged table at the gate, I look up and flash my unfeigned boyish grin.
“Sige po Kuya, alis na po ako,” I say to the security guard of the RONGUI Building where my gym is located.
Then, I receive a feedback. “Sige, ingat,” says Kuya as he salutes with the eleemosynary expression on the planes of his face, which is weather-beaten as if he is bushed but keeps on living to earn his being. His grizzled hair is also thinning that it means he has long been aging.
“Sige po Kuya, alis na po ako,” I say to the security guard of the RONGUI Building where my gym is located.
Then, I receive a feedback. “Sige, ingat,” says Kuya as he salutes with the eleemosynary expression on the planes of his face, which is weather-beaten as if he is bushed but keeps on living to earn his being. His grizzled hair is also thinning that it means he has long been aging.
Congratulations to Kristinne Anne Perez Felix!
I WAS APPREHENSIVE TO converse in public but I subjugated my fear, simulating as if the crowd was faceless, for the sake that I could impart something I conceal within…
In front of the raucous high school horde, I was a guest speaker for the second time this morning. (Last year, I was also the speaker for the same category.)
I hurriedly discussed feature writing because a speaker is supposed to finish in thirty minutes. I assiduously tried to thrash out all the things I want to say; however, I suppose I FAILED! (The time is not enough.)
Afterward, there was a mini workshop-slash-contest for the category, which I’ll be judging. The topic I gave was “The most beautiful person I ever saw” and it should be done in 15 minutes plus a 3-minute extension.
Then the results came…
So I would like to congratulate the writer who I declared as winner of the contest. She’s from Mary Help of Christians School. Below is her winning article.
In front of the raucous high school horde, I was a guest speaker for the second time this morning. (Last year, I was also the speaker for the same category.)
I hurriedly discussed feature writing because a speaker is supposed to finish in thirty minutes. I assiduously tried to thrash out all the things I want to say; however, I suppose I FAILED! (The time is not enough.)
Afterward, there was a mini workshop-slash-contest for the category, which I’ll be judging. The topic I gave was “The most beautiful person I ever saw” and it should be done in 15 minutes plus a 3-minute extension.
Then the results came…
So I would like to congratulate the writer who I declared as winner of the contest. She’s from Mary Help of Christians School. Below is her winning article.
If not because of me…
MOST PEOPLE DON'T UNDERGO the things I am going through. Most people don't do the things I do. Some of these "most" even have the nerve to scrutinize me when things aren't "too much" for them - they are not contented with "enough"...
Wearing jacket every day
THE TEMPERATURE DROPPED DOWN recently… It’s not alarming; it’s amusing!
I’ve been wearing jackets these past few days because the climate has been chilly. In Baguio City, it has been reported that the temperature dropped down to 7.5-degrees Celsius. In Pampanga, I don’t know exactly the temperature. I just suppose that it’s cold enough for me to stop perspiring even if I wear layers of clothing.
I’ve been wearing jackets these past few days because the climate has been chilly. In Baguio City, it has been reported that the temperature dropped down to 7.5-degrees Celsius. In Pampanga, I don’t know exactly the temperature. I just suppose that it’s cold enough for me to stop perspiring even if I wear layers of clothing.
The first-ever kojic acid soap…
THIS SOAP IS THE first-ever kojic acid soap… No, no, no! I’m not saying it’s the first one ever manufactured in the history of the galaxy; it’s just that it’s the first-ever kojic acid soap I’ve sold in the time of my being....
Kojic acid soap is known for its pulchritudinous benefits to the skin. It can moisturize dry skin without having to clog your pores so it won’t turn your skin sebaceous. (The thought of "skin-moisturizing" is according to the unreliable label of a certain brand, which I am not selling.) It aids in skin exfoliation for skin renewal and removal of dead skin cells. Thus, it helps whiten your skin.
What’s infuriatingly iniquitous?
THERE ARE COUNTLESS THINGS that are infuriatingly iniquitous. One of them is when you make a clear deal with people who you’re actually helping to get something they want; yet they still don’t do their part in order to materialize it…
Are you one of them? If yes, then I tell you this:
Are you one of them? If yes, then I tell you this:
The mare: Just a mistress (The truth about yesterday’s horses)
WE CROSSED THE FREEZING city of Angeles and arrived at the zero-degree savannah of Clark after taking photos of diverge views in an unknown park and window-shopping at the Oriental Mall while others fritter.
And then there we arrived…
The El Kabayo is a location in Clarkfield Pampanga where there are horses. (From the word itself, “kabayo” is the Filipino word for “horse”.) In here, we met two horse attendants who were wearing MP4 earphones hanging upon their ears.
And then there we arrived…
The El Kabayo is a location in Clarkfield Pampanga where there are horses. (From the word itself, “kabayo” is the Filipino word for “horse”.) In here, we met two horse attendants who were wearing MP4 earphones hanging upon their ears.
Running with horses
HOW DOES IT FEEL to dash with horses like the ones in the photo? I suppose that would be very exasperating – just like yesterday…
Workloads yesterday were very exasperating too! (Running from the Accounting and Finance Office to the Multi Media Center and Publications’ Office just to request for a budget disbursement that has to be fixed sooner to defray a flight to Palawan, which has already been reserved and should be paid on the other day, and then climbing through the overpass just to traverse from one building – or campus – to another… and more, more, and more – a thousand “mores”!)
Workloads yesterday were very exasperating too! (Running from the Accounting and Finance Office to the Multi Media Center and Publications’ Office just to request for a budget disbursement that has to be fixed sooner to defray a flight to Palawan, which has already been reserved and should be paid on the other day, and then climbing through the overpass just to traverse from one building – or campus – to another… and more, more, and more – a thousand “mores”!)
It came back…
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MIRACULOUSLY, I FOUND MY dream-catcher, which I reported lost in my former article in this blog! The lesson learned:
Dark-brown monkeys shouldn’t speak English!
OFTENTIMES, WHEN OTHERS TRY cumbrously to converse English, they overlook the mirror. Why? Well, because their language doesn’t just jibe with their skin-color….
Mariah Carey once quoted that Regine Velasquez is a “monkey”. Regine is a Filipino, we all know that. Analogously speaking, Mariah juxtaposed a Filipino with a monkey.
Mariah Carey once quoted that Regine Velasquez is a “monkey”. Regine is a Filipino, we all know that. Analogously speaking, Mariah juxtaposed a Filipino with a monkey.
Is this a stress-causing genus?
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RECENTLY, A FRIEND OF mine saw a white particle in my hair strand. I don’t know what it is; however, it looks like a wax that had turned into a thread, which was spliced with a one of my ash-blond hair strands. As if it was formerly a non-living creature that acquired life by being a parasite, which scrounges the proteins in my hair.
ESET is no longer number 1?
PROUDLY SPEAKING, THE ESET Smart Security and NOD32 Antivirus have been awarded by the AV Comparatives.org as “The Best Antivirus in Proactive Detection” for 2008. This award goes to the antivirus that can detect threats even before they get recorded in their virus definition database. ESET is the only one among 16 antivirus softwares that has been awarded with the “Advanced+” for detecting unknown threats (click here to see the proof).
However, there is just something with further results that is simply obnoxious…
However, there is just something with further results that is simply obnoxious…
Presenting the literary folio of…
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BEHOLD THE LITERARY FOLIO of The Pioneer! It is titled “Sari-sari store ni Apung Barang” – a collection of short stories and poems classified within different chapters named as follow:
kendi, delata, sitsirya, and iskul suplays
How to have a copy? Well, there are several ways...
How to produce a stylish bulletin board?
TWO DAYS AGO, I spearheaded the team who adorned the bulletin board of the Pioneer. That time, I thought of how to create a stylish bulletin board even if I am not that inclined with painting? Well, the way is very simple…
Contact the best artists in the organization. (In my case, I had Gian Paras and Justin Mandal – both of them are correspondents of The Pioneer.) Then if they ask you what the theme of the board is all about, simply say:
Contact the best artists in the organization. (In my case, I had Gian Paras and Justin Mandal – both of them are correspondents of The Pioneer.) Then if they ask you what the theme of the board is all about, simply say:
What’s alarming about ESET NOD32 v2.7?
THIS IS ALARMING! I inserted my USB into a virus-infected laptop. That laptop was the “organization’s laptop” of The Pioneer, which contains ten viruses as detected by ESET NOD32 version 3 in our desktop at home.
These are the ten viruses:
These are the ten viruses:
Not capable of loving…
I’LL NEVER FORGET WHAT Ruffa Gutierrez said in Desperadas 2. There, she plays the role of Isabela, a woman who tries assiduously to become adroit in managing her money. But what’s notable of her is that she’s not into earnest relationships, and she never bequeaths herself to love. Yes, she may have a lover, but she never confides her time to him. She’d rather have a fling instead…
Friends for sale in ukay-ukay
LONG AGO, I RECEIVED a message saying: Kung ang isang kaibigan ay maibebenta sa ukay-ukay, ibebenta kita sa halagang piso. Bakit? Para lahat magka-chance na makilala ang isang tunay na kaibigang tulad mo....
Isn’t that dulcet and bewitching? Well, I suppose it’s not.
The thought of that message says if a friend could be vended in an “ukay-ukay” – these are the stores that sell low-priced genuine goods because they are cast-off – then the sender would sell the recipient, who is supposed to be his/her friend, for as low as Php1.00 only. Why? So that everyone would afford to purchase that person thus everyone will have the chance to meet a very special, congenial and unfeigned friend like him/her.
My argument: Why would I vend my precious friends if I know there are oodles of people out there who are “USERS”?
Isn’t that dulcet and bewitching? Well, I suppose it’s not.
The thought of that message says if a friend could be vended in an “ukay-ukay” – these are the stores that sell low-priced genuine goods because they are cast-off – then the sender would sell the recipient, who is supposed to be his/her friend, for as low as Php1.00 only. Why? So that everyone would afford to purchase that person thus everyone will have the chance to meet a very special, congenial and unfeigned friend like him/her.
My argument: Why would I vend my precious friends if I know there are oodles of people out there who are “USERS”?
Kismet
PEOPLE SAY THERE’S ALWAYS a right person out there for everyone, but I suppose mine got thwacked by a truck! Candidly, this thought was adopted from a text message I recently received. However, the words I used in this blog are expressed through my own style. (Did you notice my choice of word?)
Originally, the simple message was from Irish, a former classmate in BS Nursing. Now, she’s Magnolia’s best friend. I suppose they are classmates too.
Originally, the simple message was from Irish, a former classmate in BS Nursing. Now, she’s Magnolia’s best friend. I suppose they are classmates too.
From ESET Smart Security v3 to ESET NOD32 v2.7
AFTER AN HOUR-LONG DECISION-MAKING, I finally clinched to downgrade my ESET Smart Security version 3 to ESET NOD32 Antivirus version 2.7.
After all, it was an arduous decision!
ESET Smart Security version 3 is the new generation of NOD32 antivirus. It has a personal firewall and anti-spam module, plus all the features of ESET Nod32. (For the full features of ESET NOD32, Smart Security, and version 2.7 and 3 differences, please click in this hyperlink.) In my computer, it's going smoothly well that I don't have any problem about it.
What I like the most is the Advanced Heuristic, a feature that detects “threats” even before they get recorded into the database of the security center. NOD32 v2.7 also has that, actually.
Using the GUI of the v3, however, is so feasible. I feel like there is no thrill because I am overly protected even in the cyberspace (because I use the ESET Smart Security). As well, it is so beautiful with its sliced lime eyes icon and green appearance, just like this one:
After all, it was an arduous decision!
ESET Smart Security version 3 is the new generation of NOD32 antivirus. It has a personal firewall and anti-spam module, plus all the features of ESET Nod32. (For the full features of ESET NOD32, Smart Security, and version 2.7 and 3 differences, please click in this hyperlink.) In my computer, it's going smoothly well that I don't have any problem about it.
What I like the most is the Advanced Heuristic, a feature that detects “threats” even before they get recorded into the database of the security center. NOD32 v2.7 also has that, actually.
Using the GUI of the v3, however, is so feasible. I feel like there is no thrill because I am overly protected even in the cyberspace (because I use the ESET Smart Security). As well, it is so beautiful with its sliced lime eyes icon and green appearance, just like this one:
Imbecilic god (Should it be with capital G?)
AMANG SUGA IS THE father of Sinukuwan and Magayon in the show Diyosa at ABS-CBN. The two are sisters who live in Kabanua, the equivalence of Heaven or Paradise in the story. Magayon is the antagonist while Sinukuwan is the protagonist.
Recently, however, Magayon and Sinukuwan had their physiques interchanged because Magayon used supernatural powers, which she acquired from the Aklat ng Propesiya (Book of Prophecy), to do so even without Sinukuwan’s will. Thus, Magayon, sojourning in the body of Sinukuwan, is able to hoodwink almost all and sundry except the characters in this list:
Recently, however, Magayon and Sinukuwan had their physiques interchanged because Magayon used supernatural powers, which she acquired from the Aklat ng Propesiya (Book of Prophecy), to do so even without Sinukuwan’s will. Thus, Magayon, sojourning in the body of Sinukuwan, is able to hoodwink almost all and sundry except the characters in this list:
Restoring a dead exhaust fan
BEHOLD THE MIRACLE! FINALLY, I hear the thud of the exhaust fan in the laptop once again. In my recent blog (if you read it), I said that I presume the exhaust fan of the laptop is not working that’s why I bought a laptop cooler from CD-R King. Now, I don’t have to use the laptop cooler always because the fan is already functioning.
April’s new discovery
RECENTLY, APRIL DISCOVERED THAT the Temptation blusher she purchased from HBC could actually be something else. I remember April was not contented the morning she used that blusher because it didn’t turn out the way she expected it to be. However, few days ago, she sent me a message when she read my article in this blog that states she’s not so much happy about the outcome of the product after application. The message read:
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