second thoughts

i. fort santiago

my sister and i had to have some fingerprinting done at the bir, but thanks to one of my dad's connections, the entire transaction took only thirty minutes, much less than our estimation. therefore having subsequent time to kill, we went to fort santiago. at this point i realized that i have a chronic addiction to warrior within, since i immediately identifed the point on the left-hand wall at which i could run up, grab a ledge, shimmy right and up to the second floor, and jump pillars to get to the other side.

right.

ii. 100 peso taxi ride

since i was feeling lazy after walking around the fort and shrine, i requested that we took a taxi at least until dlsu [at which point i'd be getting off anyway]. the taxi driver, instead of turning right at taft avenue, continued straight on. my dad figured he'd be taking roxas blvd to avoid traffic. but when we hit the quezon circle, it became evident that he'd taken us for incompetent tourists. we then 'convinced' the taxi driver to bring us all the way back to dlsu.

he even reset his meter. what a nice guy.

iii. litera1

successfully changing sections to s21 really was a godsend. one-third of the grade is dependent on four five-sentence journal entries about your assigned book; another one-third on an oral presentation about the said book; and the third one-third [bart would kill me if he read that] on a midterm essay to be written in class over two meetings.

do i smell a 4.0?

the only downside is that renz picked f. sionil jose's my brother, my executioner for our group's reading. not that it's a bad book or anything, it's just not my type. the fact that noli, fili, the sky over dimas, smaller and smaller circles, and the woman who had two navels [nick joaquin] were also up for grabs only makes me feel worse.

there is irony in this situation, though, since before i shifted, our former prof [ms talaue, i think] assigned the same book for mandatory reading.

iv. distrai

aside from the fact that i actually have to exert effort in the subject, it's not really that bad. maybe if we had more practice than theory, or if they taught us actual a.i. source code.

btw, the third in the a.i. series is subject-coded as "maclern". if you ask me, it's a covert advertising ploy funded by a certain fast-food giant.

would you like fries with that?

v. chudor

had an outburst in the duxmobile. lucky he couldn't aim straight. anyway we finally got him back to his usual self and i walked him home. tbb is unanimous, though, on blaming this on renz.

bago sumawsaw sa pag-bartend, siguraduhin mong marunong kang magtimpla.

sige ingat.ü 
posted by stani at 9:42 AM