Monday, December 31, 2012

Iiwanan Kitang Tumatawa

Let me start by saying that 2012 was a very difficult year BUT---

Then, the list will continue why I will highlight this three-letter word to further describe the year that has been full of shit-pulling but nevertheless middle-finger-pointing worthy moments of triumphs…

My words are harsh and will be harsh but then again, this will be somehow be the mood of our year-end special. Full of intrigues and something to go-figure and laugh about…

First, as we all particularly know my 2012 started abnormally…

Oh well, not a lot of people get to welcome a year on a rooftop, seeing fireworks, the skies and the moon plus only around 14 people who by the way the only citizen of the world you have seen so far because basically you are all locked up in a social aquarium. Please do add as well, a handful of cameramen and lights men who are all either wearing bonnet or mask.

Three hundred sixty five and one-fourth days back, why did we end up on the rooftop?

Yeah, we won the weekly battle of counting down the remaining hours of 2011 with the use of pure instinct… what I mean is, we have to predict when will the clock strike 12 midnight with the use of any improvised device to count time sans the use of any clock or timer…

How is that terrible? Very terrible – imagine, waiting for the day to be consumed… But how are we more marvellous? Well, we were near perfect as we were just actually 55-minutes advanced to predicting it zero-in… *talk about human perfection* and so, we ended up on top of that building spitting greetings to the world how happy we were to finally see the skies, breathe air and celebrate New Year, the housemates’ way! ***Yeah boi!***

It was fantastic!

After a little month more, I finally went out and it was all good.

Oh, well perhaps before I’ve got to read all their social network bashes…

It was a little bit frustrating but then when you're going to look at it, I should be ready for those predicaments and I think it was all relatively fine. Funny but thanks to the guy named Sigmund for saying that it was all a part of anal-development residual behavior… I could share a lot of screen captures but there’s this one who really was a perfect example, one that was written by oh well, a fellow Negrense and I’d long to meet her. Too bad, I am so not a fan of the cyber crime law…

Huya man ta sa yawyaw :-)
Tani nag audition siya sa PBB...
Amo ni ya nag tuod na basher complete name ang ginasulat... and no holds barred

NOTE: I have to erase her name and the people involve for 'her' safety. 

Nan?! Teh? Maano ka d? Haha!

At the end of the day, you laugh at them and say, ‘move on na pipol, packed up na nag PBB…’

And then the begotten days has come when you suddenly find yourself in the middle of a limbo. When you just want intimacy to yourself and your closest comrades and settle-down after you took bath everyday with cameras hovering around you, but people demand most of your time and ask questions like:

1. Gwapo gid man si Slater? --- HUO!
Funny is most people asking are not females, not bekis but the guys…

2. Si Carlo gid man kag si Wendy? --- Daw indi man…
Ang mga nagapati na tanan na housemates dapat my loveteam.

3. May camera maligo? --- Read the second sentence of the previous paragraph.

4. Nagdiet ka? Kaniwang sa imo gali/haw? --- Pwede ko ka diet and lose 20 pounds after 4 days?

5. Sin-o si kuya? --- AMBOT. Wala gid kami idea sin-o.
Dason piliton ka paaminon na si Direk Laurenti ang Kuya… 
People, wala gid ko idea pero sure ko na indi siya.

And you can’t just rest because your phone beeps almost every minute. Greetings from friends and families are so appreciated except for those people who beforehand, went cuckoo and  sila pa ang rason tani ngaa ma disqualify ka kay gulpi lang ma post sa FB mo

“Joya, goodluck, we are behind you 101%” --- 


Heller? Daw the last time I checked, you totally forgot about me… and just so I would hear later on nga ginsumbatan na ako, kay siya ang nag bayad sang tarp ko?

Dali lang gid… Diin tani? Kag the last time I checked, gin-blocked mo ko sa Facebook? WEAK!

And the list continues…

My thoughts on this? Wala… Keribels, boom boom bells lang.

I should reassure myself that amidst everything there lies the cosmic reality that water will seek its own level.

Half the year passed and so I thought it will be just the typical routinary activities of pass and play but by the middle of the year God will surprised me with things I ought to perpetuate a couple of years more.

That somehow when you are half sleeping about the things you should be doing, desired or deserved, He will wake you up with thunders and chaos.

Therefore I tell the story of the two peasants who went to an office with barely thirty hundred pesos signed in and conspired not to be the best but to be the only one.

Hence, the birth of the very notorious and fate-favored batmobile-monickered system.

It took the trajectory of flying, first unidentified but then some things just have to pop and consequently we have to go out in the open and finally launch on free-web the 

EXCELLERO REVIEW SYSTEMS.

It afforded us consistent exposure and a little bit of hushed popularity. Something we enjoyed but then there also lies the fact in what the Dark Knight said that the mask is not meant for hiding but to protect your loved ones. True enough in the middle of everything, there were also the bombardment of unwarranted and more often far from hypothesis stories.

Did you recall that I once post something about grammar?

Did you recall my all caps post?

I think that when I re-read it all over again I should tell myself to smile and say, that was entertaining!

It was juts sickening that you were tagged to be the villain, the copycat, the bone and the ingrate ambitious when all you did was just chase your dream. And for the information, I am a nurse and a teacher – not a mechanic, not a farmer and most of all not an embalmer for you to lament and say that I should shift direction… Sad to say, I’ve only got One Direction and it sings:
One Direction Wallpaper 1,
You're insecure

Don't know what for

You're turning heads when you walk through the door
Don't need make up
To cover up
Being the way that you are is enough

Everyone else in the room can see it
Everyone else but you

(smile if you sang along)

Fast forward to September and I am more than happy for the way things turned out. And I will be thankful from this day forward.

It is a miracle that we found ourselves starting the review season with a small number of strong individuals who first and foremost trusted us to walk them through their dreams. Some have failed the exams a couple of times already but their determination to capture that elusive dream made us steadfast that what we are doing is not just an ordinary thing, but that the most important thing is that whether we crawl or cruise, the goal still remains focused and précised on a singular target.

I have hopes that is comparable to water now that I have them and it even grew bigger as the days went by. These people are so brave to do things the uncommon way and so there is no point that I should falter because they are counting on us and we just can’t fail them .









What I always tell my students is that fortune favors the brave, and I know they have been brave and they just have to wait for that favor. #countdowntoFebruary
#pioneer
#historical






It is also in this journey that I realized I am travelling in a desert. Such that you see sand, you experience the heat by day and the cold by night; that it is actually treacherous; that you see cactus and you meet the oasis; you also harbor scorpions.

I feel funny whenever I remember the moments when we were tested. When we have no office yet, when we have to stay at our temporary office, a hide-away which is actually not secretive at all and talk about plans, when we have to take lunch at turo-turos, something I am very proud of because it taught me a great deal of appreciation on what I have that time and what I didn’t have. Contrary to what they popularly spread, we didn’t work on a humungous budget but let me just emphasize on how big the plans of God are for us that we were never left wanting but always sufficient. When we were walking on the streets braving the rains and the sun, I enjoyed it so much more than the coolness of a car because by enduring so it made the impossible a little bit more of a comedy which I can’t relate because clearly there was nothing impossible.


It is in these arduous tasks from picking wall paints, nail sizes, electrical cords buying that I get to learn the very minute details of the whole picture and by which I can securely say to myself and only to my exhausted self in the end of my days 


I have lived more than what I was born for.’

In the future, if my students will ask for the history of our existence and why we have thrived for half a century, by that time I will smile with calmness that it was a labor of love and passion; Of family’s strength of fathers and  of mothers, of uncles, of aunties, of friends and of students…

That it happened because of  love and not because I have to prove myself that I am better than someone’s other children…

Of course, the Cinderella story is not complete without the evil stepsisters and the fairy godmother.

Now this is the interesting part.

There’s none. Char!

I am transfixed on the idea that they have revealed themselves too quite sooner than I have expected. I cannot blame them nor anyone because it is not a hidden truth that the ocean will continue to make waves even if it rains or the sun shines…

I am also slightly saddened because there would be situations when I have to choose between things and that you end up choosing to bore the burns and wait for the scab than keep the skin intact because you just can't wait for the 27 days to peel the dead skins away but rather cut yourself and bleed.

When there are unexpected, of course there are the perennial non vertebrate. I don't know then whether there has been a lapse on Carolus Linneaus’ taxonomy.


No matter how hard you try to save people you just can’t be the mercenary because one’s belief of triumph is dependent on the cause and if the cause does not believe the worth of your belief then all things are futile… it would be more plausible to plant camote on an arid land, especially if you diligently water the soil. Ka-complicated gid sang analogy haw?

By sticking to us till the every end, we saw clearly who were our real allies and friends. In words strongly said by Daniel, I will help till the very end those who are with us now. I just find peace in knowing that if there’s one thing I was so proud of is that the loyalty that I have now was not because I asked people to be loyal to me or silly asking them where their loyalty belongs because to begin with we never should ask for it, we earn it.

I just would like to thank the people who made this 2012 ever more colourful than a 48-piece crayons. For the support and the strength. I will not mention them one a piece lest I may forget some but they already know the amount of gratitude that we have for them. I thank for the inspirations and push the other people gave me too. For the very significant ‘secret supporter’, the engineer, the OFW, the jedi and all mortals and immortals who until now are helping us, thank you very much.

To my family and our families – my sacrifices are nothing as compared to the amount of care and lessons I have learned from you. That indeed my truest gems are not priced but knowing in solace that I will forever be the star of the family. #narcissisticmeterrocketing

To my ever dearest friends who chose to help us carry the task of opening the center everyday – God knows what we all went through and I am glad I shared it with all of you.

To those who went through with the plans, the people who worked extra-mile and inspired our students – you guys rock! The geniuses and the William Wallaces of our time and season – that instead of begging for ‘mercy’ you shouted ‘freedom’.


Braveheart movie: FREEDOM > MERCY

Now, this is really boring.

But let me end this by saying that the prediction I received for 2012 were indeed true. That indeed 2012 will be a year of tests, struggles and hardships but the end result will be to test my character and I have so survived it with five stars.

I am only half the triumph and the trouble, please wait for the trouble that my very special friend will install. The other 50% which my dearest Daniel will complete. I thank God that I have someone who can do the schedules competently, someone who can teach even without sleep, someone who can answer questions in an eezy, breezy way and most of all for being there when our students needed it the most.

I learned a lot from you. I love the deal that we made and if there’s one thing I can truly make it up for you is not by giving you something money can buy but by giving you a brand new wife with a DTI Representative and Tatak Pinoy seal. CHAR!

No, I'm not pregnant... :-)

Adios 2012!

Sunday, December 9, 2012

TOP 5 EXCELLIGENT IN the Preboard 2012

Republic of the Philippines
EXCELLERO REVIEW SYSTEMS
Bacolod City

PREBOARD RESULTS

TOP FIVE 

1. BALLADOS, CHRESSY - Riverside College, Bacolod City
2. GARAYGAY, JUNFEL - West Negros University, Bacolod City
3. SIROY, CEDRIC - Riverside College, Bacolod City
4. BAYLON, MARIGOLD - University of Saint La Salle, Bacolod City
5. ALMODIEL, JOHN MICHAEL - Colegio San Agustin, Bacolod City
5. BAYKING, GEDY ANN - West Negros University, Bacolod City
5. TABAODAJA, LEORDEL - Colegio San Agustin-Bacolod, Bacolod City

***Nothing Follows***

Date of Examination: November 29-30, 2012
Date Released: December 8, 2012



EXCELLERO PREBOARD 2012 RESULTS

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
EXCELLERO REVIEW SYSTEMS
Bacolod City

BOARD OF NURSING
Nov. 29 & 30 PREBOARD RESULTS

***LIST OF PASSERS***

1. ALMODIEL, JOHN MICHAEL
2. ALPAAS, MA. JOHNELIJAH
3. APELLIDO, CHRIS OLIVER
4. BALLADOS, CHRESSY
5. BAYKING GEDY ANN
6. BAYLON, MARIGOLD
7. BAYONA, ROMEL RAY
8. BETITA, EULAMAE
9. BOLIVAR, ELMER REI
10. BUENDIA, MECHELLE
11. CADIZ, KELVIN MARC
12. CASTEJON, SHERI PEARL
13. CIOCON, MARY JOY CELINE
14. GALENO, EUREKA
15. GARAYGAY, JUNFEL
16. GAVILANES, NONITO
17. HERIA, MARY LARA
18. MALATA, JED ROMAN
19. MARTIREZ, CHRISTINE JOY
20. MIRANDA, DIORITA
21. PALOA, ANN MARIE
22. REOYAN, MAY ANNE
23. RIFE, ERIKA MARIE
24. SABAY, SARA JEAN
25. SALOMANTE, GIFT
26. SIROY, CEDRIC
27. TABAODAJA, LEORDEL
*** Nothing Follows***


Date Released: December 8, 2012