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whew!

I’ve already got my grades in some of my subjects. Some made me happy. Some a bit disappointed. Anyway, it is all my fault. I just have to make up next semester and do good to get better grades.haha

Math17. Wooh. This subject is the most critical for me. It is because if I failed, I won’t be able to get a number of subjects next semester. That’s why I wished to at least get a 3.0 . And thankfully, my wish is granted.

Chem16. Uhuh. Not so contented but I should be. I regret having ignored the lab part before taking the final exam. Anyway, 2.25 is just fair.

Philo1. Among the grades given, I bet this is my highest. I got 1.75 -just fair for the efforts I’ve exerted. ahe

NatSci2 . 2.0. That was the grade I got. Just fine again.haha

My grades in the other subjects are not yet given. English11 and my P.E..

Good start kiddo! Gotta do something and get better grades next time. ahe

At last, all my final exams are done.

Just a few hours ago, I’ve finished the final exam in Chem16 and it was easier than what I have expected. I’m just not so sure if I’ll get a hundred percent rating.haha Wish me luck.

As of now, I’m still hoping to get a passing grade in Math17. Tough luck! I still need to wait til Monday to get the result. Pray for me. ahe

The greatest achievement I had achieved this semester is the fact that I did not drop my P.E. with Prof. Caces. Too great I got myself into the final practical exam.haha

Thanks for reading! God bless!

Whoa. The semester is about to end. We’ll just have about two weeks or three. And I don’t know yet what to expect.

I’ve had five subjects. Two major subjects and three GE courses. These are Math17, Chem16, NatSci2, Philo1 and Eng11. And of course I had my P.E. which is Weight Training for men. Nice, huh? Anyway, here’s what I can say about these things.

Math17- It is College Algebra and Trigonometry. We’ve studied it in Highschool for four years and now we’ve had it for just five months. Only when I failed in my first two long exams in Math17 did I realize that I’m not that good at mathematics. But the good thing is that I have passed the third long exam. Oops! I forgot, I got a low score in the midterms. Anyway, I can still pass this subject. I just have to get a score of at least 70 percent from the next exams especially in the Finals.

Chem16- As a chemical engineering student, I am supposed to be good in this field of science-Chemistry! I guess I did fine. Got no high scores but at least all are passing scores. I just hope I can do better than what I’ve done. This is because I still have lots of chemistry courses to take. I think I just need around 130 points to be exempted from the Final Exam. I wish I can have it. Our third long exam is worth 150 points. Utmost 20 points wrong pls.hehe

NatSci2- Natural Science. During the first half of the semester we’ve had Geology and on the second half we did have Biology. As far as I know I did enjoy our class though I have oftenly fell asleep during class hours. The temperature made me fall asleep I guess. Forget about it. What matters most is that I’ve learnt new things here and that I enjoyed it.

Philo1- It was about critical thinking. Um. We’ve had lectures, workshops and of course, touchstones! I enjoyed the touchstones part. It’s because I enjoyed doing the talking part during the discussion.hehe (Take note: Different profs do different way of giving the lectures)

Eng11- This is about literature. I really love this. Aside from the reason that I enjoyed reading a lot, I really enjoyed the way we have analyzed poems, short stories, a novel and a play. It was fun. Amazing! I learned a lot. The best! ahe

And lastly, my P.E.! Weight Training for Men. Too Tough! I always get muscle pains and backache every Wednesday and Friday. Uh, I forgot! I had lots of pain relievers in my room. Why didn’t I use one? Huh. Anyway, what makes me nervous is our practical examination. Wish me luck!

Well. As the semester is about to end, I should have learnt a lot and should have realized a lot too! Waah! I’m getting tired.

God bless you! and thanks for reading.

I’m a bit lost. Just a bit. Not much but just a bit.

Oh. I don’t know what to do. The said supertyphoon Pepeng is said to come today. Do I have to worry? I’m coming back to Diliman tomorrow, anyway. Weeh. Too much of the doze is taken today. Too much of the emotional distress. Too much about thinking. Too much about talking and too much about worrying.

I guess, I really need a break. What kind of break? I dunno. I want to go somewhere-a place where I can have some time alone. Just me, me and me.

Wah.

This is so dramatic.

Cool down.

Good night and God bless us all!

Uh-oh! I do! I do!..

I really want to make money on my own. But where do I get to have work? Uhm. I don’t wanna go to bars and any other place. Eh? How about through the internet?

Well, I have just browsed a site a while ago that can publish my works and at the same time help me earn money. Sounds great, huh? Well, the problem is that I still don’t have Paypal account and that I have left my bank acconts long time ago.hehe

Anyway, I’m still interested to make money. i just have to look for a work that suits me best while studying.

Let us all help and pray for the victims of the typhoon Ondoy..

God bless you!

Hello!

That was a very long title. Anyway, I really have been asleep before September and so I don’t have to be waken up before September ends.hehe

I’m so happy coz at least I have updated my story 101 page and also because I have successfully survived the week of exams. Not to mention that we’ve already got results in some of the exams especially in Chem16. Uh. Good thing, I have passed the exam. But bad thing, I think I should go a very long way to get exempted from the Final Exam. huh?

This week, everyhting’s gonna go the same way. It’s just that we won’t be having our philo class. And about my P.E., well, everything’s going the way it should be. Got no problem with the weights. I just have to practice coordination (Yeah1 As if we were dancing). But we really did. Our warm-up exercise is some kind of a dance. But it’s a weird dance i guess.

No more updates men! I have to go!

God bless!

Behind the Curtain II

(Highschool madness)

by Romelando R. Juanatas

Highschool life would never be as fun as what students wanted it to be without meeting new friends, having nice boyfriend/girlfriend and definitely, a nice kind of co-curricular activity-camping or a night-stay in a campus.

Friends outside the class but would seem to be cats and dogs when it comes to the competition for the academic ranking. That’s the kind of relationship these five intellectual students got: Jacob and Jack Meyer, Danielle Watson, Angel Smith and Loren Ricks.

They got a lot of things different but there’s one thing that bonds them-music. They got the same genre of music and it was RnB, Rhythm and Blues. It was the only thing that tightens their friendship.

Jacob and Loren are close friends, really really close because Jack( Jacob’s twin brother) had been Loren’s  boyfriend since they were in first year and up to the moment (they were in third year high school). But their closeness would be like magnetic poles repelling each other when it comes to the fight for the crown. They’ve almost got the same grades, but they only got a difference in their values class. Jacob had always been rude in the said class.

Jack, Angel and Danielle. They were the best band ever in their schoo. Danielle had been so popular being the lead singer of the band while Angel, the guitarist had always wished to sing. Jack was a campus crush but he would never look for other girls for he had Loren.

The Semestral break. Just a few days and they were free again but just for a week or two. But that’s not what they were waiting for. It was the School’s Friendship and Leadership Camp.

They were all excited. A day before the camp. the had prepared everything. a planned surprise was actually waiting for them or should it be called an astonishment?

The day had come. Not more than a hundred students had come. Socialization had always been their first agenda. Food! There were a lot of different dishes prepared for the campers.

There were four separate tables for four groups of campers. The table setting was enticing and elegant and for sure, everybody would love to eat.

It was almost nine when they started to eat their dinner. Our five kids were distributed in each group except for jacob and Jack who were both part of the last mentioned group.

“The food is great! And I love it!,”  Jacob exclaimed.

On the other hand, everybody had started to starve including the organizers of the said event.

Lights went out. Silence. Yes, there was silence. There were only five innate human beings still awake. And no one from them had spoken a word.

“Ouch! What are you doin’?! Stop!! Heell…p!!,” an unidentified voice shouted. Nobody else did talk. No other sound was heard except the loud noise made by those fatal stabs.

After an hour of silence, the lights went on again. There were only four of them left. “Angel is now gone!!,” Danielle said in a fearful voice.

“But how did it happen? Nobody in this room could have killed her. Nobody got bloodstains in his/her clothes. I am hoping that this is only a dream. This can’t be for real!,” Jacob said trying to calm himself and everyone.

Loren was hesitant. She didn’t know what to do and words continuously came from her mouth. “What if we will go now? It is safer in our house. I can’t stay here and wait for the killer to kill us also. This shouldn’t have happened if we haven’t let the organizers to eat our stuffs!! If we haven’t done it, they would be with us and could help us.”

Jack tried to agree. “That’s right! We can’t wake the whole of them now! The substance we have placed in their food will be inside their system until six in the morning. So, what are the whole of us planning to do?? I can’t think of any other way but to leave this area.”

“What the hell is going on??,” Jacob shouted after the lights had turned off again.

They had no source of light. They were all afraid. They just kept their mouth shut. Cries in low voice were heard. The crying voice had even made the whole of them fear everything going on and everything around them.

They have just sat in their place while waiting for the lights to turn on again except for someone planning for another surprise. Footsteps had produced sounds which made them even more afraid. The kids didn’t move until the next hour.

Both hands of the clock pointed at twelve and still there was no light. “Hey, anybody doin’ anything?,” Jacob tried to ask to assure that he wasn’t the only one awake.

“Oh, I’ve got nothing to do! Just waiting for nothing! I’m getting tired! How about you, bro? Girls, are you still up?,” his twin answered.

“We’ve got the same!… Girls???”

The two didn’t talk for a few minutes and had wait for the ladies’ response. “Oh, I guess the both of them are now sleeping!” Jacob said and for a second, the lights wnt on again.

The two did close their eyes, also trying to sleep. But a warm, thick liquid had touched their beautifully-shaped legs. Maybe it was just the gravy, but shouldn’t it have become cold that moment??

*********

Jack opened his eyes and was shocked seeing their friends corpses swimming in their own warm, thick flowing blood. “Wha…What happened?! My girlfriend is now dead! This can’t be for real!”

Jack could accept the fact that anybody else died but definitely he doesn’t want it to be his girlfriend’s destiny.

Loren had a wound at her neck, still wet. It was something like the crime was done just about three to five minutes ago. It was contradicting to the other signs. It showed that she have died almost an hour ago. She must have been poisoned, intoxicated.

The other girl, Danielle, had her left knee joint td the other leg separated from the whole of the body. It could be because of the giant chandelier at the top of her leg. It had been placed near the stage since it was removed from its original position. Who would have placed it on top of her leg? Danielle must have died before having her leg cracked. And the most probable cause of death is suffocation cause she had no other wound other than the cracked leg.

Jacob tried to calm his twin but he received a punch as a response, “Why the hell did you do that?”

“You killed the whole of them.I hate you! They have died. and you, you’ll die!”, Jack prepared himself for another punch.

“No, don’t do this! Oh come on! I can’t do such a thing. They are all my friends, our friends.”

jack didn’t listen thogh he heard it all. He did give a number of punch. Jacob tried not to fight but he was near to death, so he grabbed the fork in the table nearest him. It contained glycosides and some other poisonous substance which attacks the cardiovascular system, which could also be Loren’s cause of death. Jacob had stabbed his twin while crying and craving for air. He had suffered from asthma.

“It wasn’t me, Jack. I don’t wanna de this way. Shall i say goodbye? See…you…if there really is a second…la…”

It was jacob’s last words. Teardrops fell from his eyes as his eyelids had closed.

“Life! I’m sorry! i’m sorry… ugh..ugh..”, Jack still had caught his last breath, feeling his heart contracting and beating in a different manner. He held Jacob’s left hand and last, he was dead.

The silence of the dawn was ended by a number of footsteps which came from a corner, which walked to the place where the most of them have died. Three more hours were left before the time for the campers to wake up from starvation.

The owner of the footsteps moved and placed all the dead bodies behind the curtain where stocks were stored by the faculties. The suspect was sure, the facilitators will check the place at exactly seven in the morning. She had bloodstains present in her clothes. She looked at herself and started a speech.

“You had been good friends of mine, but I needed to do this. I don’t know why but I just did. I guess this would be a solution to the unending competition in class! but that’s not everything…hehe… Goodbye!”

She had documented everything. S she stepped backward and was ready to laugh out loud, she felt a stab in her cramped legs which also caused her death.

-The question is still unanswered. The only thing I would want to know is how the people think to kill or why do they want to kill.

Human consciousness, human’s way of thinking-another question which remained unanswered.

-End-

Still

by Romelando Juanatas

still me, right?

As I have finally retrieved my consciousness from deep sleep and completely risen from my very own cottony-soft bed, which I was never certain if the bed really belonged to me or if I am the one who belongs to it, I have opened the window sill just above the unfamiliar drawer box with three frames each containing a face the same as I had.

I saw a young man with a cap on his head and was on a stop in the middle of the road. Everything seemed to stop. The birds flying went to a stop and the scenario seemed to be just like a painting. “Am I looking into mom’s painting?” I asked myself. I repeated the question waiting for an answer. But I guess nobody did hear me.

Oh, what a mistake. Do I really know how to speak up? Or am I really able to utter words? I don’t know. I have forgotten.

Wait. Where are my parents? Where is my mom? Where’s dad? No. I was about to look and call for the two of them when I saw two gigantic antique frames in the beautifully red-painted wall. There was a woman, a man, and a boy in the first frame. The woman had a faint smile and I suppose she had her eyes wet. The tears were somewhat near to fall but it didn’t. The man was big, yet he looked too pale and weak. But he still tried to make a smile. The boy looked to be so happy. He had bubbly eyes. And that was it. The next frame was blurry. The background made me think like it was raining. There was only one person in the giant frame and it was the boy. Behind him were two big woodcrafts which looked like coffins. The boy wasn’t standing nor was he sitting. It was between sitting and lying. His eyes were red and he had the same pale look which the man had in the other frame.

I have seen a sheet of paper in the drawer box. It looked like a diary entry. I took it and started to read it by myself. I am glad I learnt how to read when I was sent in a place which I don’t know. What was written in the paper is that the young boy’s parents have died during the stay of the Spaniards. His parents were said to be members of allies against the Spaniards.

I felt a pain in my heart. Or did I really feel it? I felt like my immune system weakened. I fell down and was not able to stand. I bet I had some disorder after having worked as slave in a community where the Spanish people had lived.

I tried to stand and went to the window. I stared at the scenery too long. The things which had stopped seemed to be moving again. There was a truck after the young man. Am I supposed to shout at him and tell him to run away and get himself out from the road? I tried but it was good for nothing. I had no voice. My body was still losing energy and continuing to weaken. The truck was near him. I was shocked. I panicked.

It was when the truck had struck him and thrown his body about 3 meters did I realize that the young man was me. And now I’m dead.

Dead or alive, I know I should go. But go where?

     Wheew! I have to be very happy because I have survived this week where I had to take 3 long exams and a practical exam in chem.

     Such an achievement!hehe

     Anyway, I suggest people to watch the extraordinary pantene commercial and I’m  telling you, it’s really extraordinary.hehe

     God bless!