Ze Profs I love this Semester :>

I know it's bad to practice favoritism, nevertheless, I still have my set of favorites this semester. And this post is about the professors I have come to love and admire in 2nd semester AY 2011-2012.

FIRST OFF: There's Sir Ryan Redillas, more popularly known as Atong Redillas. Now the name might seem familiar and it's because he used to be a child actor-a pretty famous one at that. He starred along famous action stars such as Fernando Poe Jr., Lito Lapid, etc. Yes, he was pretty famous and I didn't know until this semester. Me and my friends just took the subject because a lot of people recommended him, saying he was so fun and amazing and all the other flowery words you could think of! :)) So yeah, we took his Hum II subject even if it was a 7AM class and I absolutely HATE 7AM classes. Buuut, it was all worth it. :> Waking up early is a really something soo small in return for having Sir Redillas as a professor. ♥ You'll love his class and you'll die because of non-stop laughter when listening to him. PLUS, he's super kind with all the bonus points for exams and all. AAND: he's a really creative professor-from his lessons to the graded recitation to the exam itself!

Waking up early twice a week for a hella early class isn't so bad when you have him as a professor. He has a lot of stories to tell, he teaches with passion and he cares about his students. He knows his students by heart and even memorized all our names! Thank you for one semester of really lovely and fun mornings. I really really love and admire Sir Redillas!

Group picture with Sir Redillas. Mary, Ancie, Bia, Sir, Ericka and Me. :>

Sir Redillas trolling on Ancie! :))

Sir, and meeeee! Solo pictuure-face is blurry :(

AND THEN: There's Sir Jerome Ong, my PI100 (Life and Works of Rizal) prof. Why did it take so long for fate to decide that I needed to be his student? I (or we?) was/were a little nervous when I found out that he was the prof because people have talked and people have said that he was a toxic professor. Anyway, I personally think (but a lot of people will agree with me, no doubt) that he is one of the BEST professors in the University. One and a half hours doesn't seem to take that long when he teaches. I wouldn't mind sitting through a three hour class if he's the professor.

He certainly knows what he teaches and he's good at what he does. He makes History very interesting to learn and you definitely LEARN from him! You don't just learn facts and names and dates-you get insights and interesting little trivias about Philippine History. He's SUPER Fun and SUPER AWESOME. When he teaches, it feels like he's just telling a friend a story or something. Despite the truth of the talks (that he was indeed toxic)-reports, a shitload of papers, more papers and two major exams that will practically blow your mind away;he's not one of those profs who are lazy to teach and guesses your grade. He's fair in giving his grades and whatever you get, you have totally earned it. He gives credit where it is due. :>

I actually just got my grade in PI100 and I was shocked and I almost died of happiness. It feels good when you get something nice for something you've really worked hard for and something you've put a lot of effort into. Thank you Sir Ong for a semester of successfully imparting your knowledge to us and may you continue to do so. Thank you for a semester full of awesomeness and fun. I have never perceived History as something enjoyable, until now. Sooo thank yoouu :> ♥

Group picture with Sir Ong! :>

Solo picture with Sir Ong. Hihihi. It looks like I don't have shorts but I dooo! :))

Again, I know it's bad to have favorites but come on. How can you not love these professors? They are absolutely favoritism worthy. This semester has been so fun and worthwhile and a big part of it is because of these professors. So thank you-not only for sharing with us you knowledge and teaching us with passion but for making a whole semester fun and awesome. I will surely miss these profs! :D Hihihi. I love them and I miss them already! :>

The 2nd Hell week!

The 2nd wave of my hellweek. WhooOOOooooo.

• Papers in PI100. Noli, El FIli and Bayani group papers
• Reaction papars for Dramalaya
• STS report
• Interview with football athlete for Comm III requirement
• PI100 toxic exam
• Speech plan
• Extemporaneous Speech

Coffee has been my best friend. I haven't been sleeping properly. Rather, I haven't been sleeping at all. Or even eating properly. Hmmmm. I need a moment to review my lifestyle. May God Bless us all.

Reporting Success!

I am on cloud 9. Today we reported in PI100 and it was successful It was even more successful than what I had imagined it to be. Thank you Lord! Me and my groupmates did awesome! We are known as ASAN-Katipunan by the way. Hihihi.

We reported about Andres Bonifacio and we decided that our gimmick would be something like the election since the elections just ended and it was still a hot topic. We spoofed the election and the two electoral parties who participated in the election. That's why we were named ASAN-Katipunan spoofing one of the parties, ASAP-Katipunan. I called it a success because our classmates laughed and so did our professor. PLUS: a lot of people said it was very effective. Hihihi. WE really put a lot of effort into this report though. We made large name tags, we coordinated on the color of our top (green-favorite color of our professor), we made a logo, we made a line that would fit the acronym ASAN-Katipunan, we made the script, etc etc. So here, I will narrate the flow of our report and explicitly write down our script.

Jessica(chairperson): Magandang Hapon mga Iskolar ng Bayan. Kami po ang mga mag-aaral mula sa Awesome Si Andres kaya Nagtatag ng Katipunan o ASAN-Katipunan

Bia &Yska: Kami po ay 5star reporters para sa isang 5star leader na si Andres Bonifacio
Bianca & Mary: From the College of Allied Medical Professions

Bianca: Ako po si Bianca, Bianca, Bianca Santos, para sa serbisyong walang paltos!
Mary: Ako naman po si Mary Mary Mary Lim, sasagipin ka sa Dilim!

Bia: Para sa serbisyong the best, kay Bia Bia Bia Reyes, just say yes!
Yska: Ako naman po si Yska Yska Yska Bocalan, tunay, palaban, Yskalar ng Bayan.

Jessica: At ako po si Jess Jess Jessica Reyes, serbisyong hindi ka maiinis!

[walk out, leaving Bia onstage]

Bia: Kilala niyo ba talaga si Andres Bonifacio? (pretends to be looking at the back). Kuyang guwapo sa likod na naka gray (pointing to sir)-kilala niyo ba si Andres Bonifacio? Malamang kasi prof ka namin.

[report proper]

ENDING of report

Yska: Umaasa po kami na makiiisa kayo sa darating na eleksyon at magbibigay ng 100 porsyento...na suporta. Salamat po.

Anyway, that's how our introduction worked. It may not seem funny printed like that, but this was complete with actions and candidate-ish intonations. Complete social suicide, I tell you. We were so happy that our jokes weren't flops and our other classmates looked genuinely impressed and entertained. What we were happy the most is that our prof really liked it too (I guess?) Hahaha. Later we found out that two out of five groups gave us the highest grade out of all the reports. Flattered, much? Hihihi. Yes, yes we were.

After class, our professor complimented us saying: "Ok concept niyo ah" and to which one of us replied: "Sir, kayo nga adviser namin di ba?", and to which he answered "Ewan ko sa inyo, wala kayong ibang ginawa kung hindi mag-sugal!" We had no reiteration. It was unfortunately true. We were just starting out candidates and there's already a black-propaganda against us. Tsssk.

I love my group. ASAN-Katipunan for the win. We are awesome.
Complete social suicide. BANG.

PANIGsahan :>

Whatever happened to rest day Sundays. I have been doing school-related stuff during Sundays recently. Not only are they acad-related, they are also physically and mentally taxing and tiring. Buuuuut, despite being physically draining. they have also proved to be a lot of fun.

I just kind of woke up from PANIGsahan, otherwise known as Amazing Race. This is a requirement for my Hum II class. For participating in this event, we get bonus points for our Final exam-the number of bonus points depends on how many points we earn in winning a certain task over the course of the marathon.

Anywaaaay, as I have said, today as super fun. I didn't expect it to be this awesome. First of all, we had to be in UP Diliman by 8:00 in the morning so that was a bummer. Fortunately though, Bia offered me a ride going there and going home. I love Bia. :)) She always offers me rides going to places or going home. The scheduled time was at 9:00 but our section decided that we should come early so we decided to meet at 8:00 but me and Bia got there at about 7:45. It's a wonder what no traffic can do. Imagine-we got to UPD from Paranaque in 45 minutes. Amazing. We were assigned the color Pink by the way. SO TFA was PINK team :>

The PANIGsahan proper was absolutely tiring. Hahaha. Our professor, Sir Redillas, made us run all over the place. We were given a shredded piece of paper which we had to rebuild and all the destinations and questions and tasks were written there. He made us run all over the University. I ran to places I didn't know existed in the University. What the fuck, even. :))

People were really competitive-especially our section. People ran all over the place. The race was even more tiring than our FPF PE. Hahaha. Some people from our section (TFA) were trash-talkers, lol. I didn't know if I should laugh or be annoyed. I don't even remember the sequence of the tasks anymore. We were asked to find this statue and that statue and various other landmarks I don't remember. Whoah, it feels like I just woke up from a hangover. Everything is really blurry. Hahaha.

Anyway, we were asked to recite something in a speech choir-y way, we were asked to do a clay model of the Rizal statue in Palma hall, we needed to draw something (I don't remember, the fuck), we needed to imitate the sundial, like making a human sundial of some sort. We needed to take pictures individually beside an Andres Bonifacio statue and give a fierce look, we had to solve riddles, we had to take a group jumpshot and individual jumpshots. Aaaand, I maybe forgetting stuff, but yeah.

So the last thing that we were supposed to do was to make a song and dance number about the things we learned in Hum II so far. In order to do this presentation, TFA sacrificed the rest and lunch time allotted to us. And in turn, we ended up doing something amazing-but we'll get to that later. Hahaha. Me and about 5 other girls we dubbed thee as Shawarma girls. God knows why it was called Shawarma Girls but I do not. :))) We sang first and we danced first. In Tagalog, unang una kami napahiya.

So we did best in the performance. Sir said it looked like we have practiced it for two days already but yeah. It was done on the day itself. Awesome, righht? I so love my section. Our leader said: Mapapahiya na din naman tayo eh, ilubos lubos na namin. Which was what we did, entirely. Wala nang hiya hiya. Social suicide at its best.

It was so much fun. WE won the performance bit of the marathon. PLUS, we won the entire marathon! We got a total of 42 points out of a possible 50! TFA is the best. Hihihi. I have so much love for my section right now. The most amazing thing about PANIGsahan is that we got to bond with the entire class-our section became closer and all :> OF COURSE: 42 bonus points in the Final Exam? What the-- :))) Awesome day is awesome :>

Said Shawarma Girls (without me :|)

Group Jump Shot. Hiihihi

TFA at Palma Hall-rest.

TFA :>

LOVE TFA. :D