SemEnder - The RetroSci Way

11:26:00 AM ivannejuare 0 Comments

To say goodbye to a very hectic and demanding semester, RetroSci had a sem ender party held at one of our blockmate's beach resort. I guess it was a family owned beach resort and it's sooo cool. This is the first sem ender that almost everyone from our block came. Plus we had additional friends from the other block. I must say that we all had fun, although we didn't get to swim. 



We ate nice foods and played games, and more games and many more games.  haha. 

I forgot what game is this. But from the looks of the player, I  guess they were really enjoying.
The Liar Game.

Us, playing Heart Attack!
Lunch Time!
Patintero. We had to stop playing after a few minutes because Sharm got injured.
Blinded folded players have to find 25 centavo coins.
To top it all, we had a nice view of the beach and we had a chance of watching the sunset! Yipee!!



To make the moment more special, our friends decided to have jump shot pictures with the sunset as a background.
In the end it wasn't the food, the games, the resort, nor the sunset that made the sem ender memorable and fun. It was the people who came and made it happen. I soo love you RetroSci! 



Photo credits: Elmark Sarmiento

F is for FUN, FRUSTRATION and FREAKONOMICS

4:07:00 PM ivannejuare 0 Comments

Fun. That was the least I expected to get in Freakonomics Fun Day 2011 when you asked me early this morning. Freakonomics is an activity that our Econ102 teacher proposed in exchange for our 3rd long exam. At first we refused to join considering the burden of our 114 class, but later on we changed our minds. Activities included a quiz bowl, amazing race, food fight, paindisanay, pinoy henyo, charades and the mascots. We ranked 2nd in the overall. Yey!

I was really gloomy that morning because the activity started at 9 am, instead of the scheduled 8 am. How lame! Plus our teacher was nowhere in sight. Plus the things that should have been prepared the night before had not been prepared. Things are just so unorganized. It wasn't until we won 2nd and 3rd in the quiz bee that I started to calm down.




The next event was amazing race, which I'm a part of. On the first station, we had a head start of 1 minute. When we proceed to the next, we ranked third. But we're so amazing that in the 3rd stop until the 5th we were leading. It was on that 6th station that we started slipping. The facilitator was nowhere in sight when we proceeded to the station so we thought that we got the clue wrong. We wasted minutes, only to find out that we were correct. Immediately, anger had overcome us and we ranked last.  While on the way to the 8th station, I had the feeling that we should be heading to where we started, to the Student Lounge, but I guess no one heard me. I didn't bother to repeat saying it because when we passed by, the area was closed and I didn't see any facilitator. A lot of things happened between that interval. And at the end of the race, we ranked 3rd. I so hate myself for not voicing my idea. We could have won the race. Damn it!
(Sorry if I'm biased. I just can't help posting many pictures of the amazing race.haha)

To the first stop...

Make a tower made of straw. 

The other pit stops.
My favorite station. The station that started our bad luck. 

While waiting to for the 3 minutes head start of the White Team to end.
Mahal and Jenny in the Kitchenomics.


Let the cheer's begin!
So what made it fun? Maybe because when you're part of Team Bolog, or RetroSci for that matter, it's always fun. We had the loudest cheer. We are the most disciplined and punctual. We are simply the amazing. We are the best. Go Team Bolog! 


Well, I guess this deserves to be the finale picture. I wasn't really expecting Kim Rommel to do this. 


Photo credits to: Michael Clavesillas, Kara Trojo, Elmark Sarmiento and Nadin Magbiray.

The Final Speech

6:32:00 PM ivannejuare 0 Comments

For the whole semester I've been facing one of my greatest fears/weakness: speaking in front of many people. I enrolled myself in Comm3, which was actually my last option. It has something to do with speaking and those speech stuff. It was really a fun class, especially since our teacher, Ma'am Tanoy, is such a wonderful teacher. All semester-round we had various speeches, and I must say, somehow I learned not be so afraid of the crowd. So our last speech was actually part of the lesson on small group discussions. We have to work on a group and make a stand on a topic given by our teacher. I guess we did kinda well because our teacher decided not to give us a final activity. Yippee! I'm glad we don't have to go through that impromptu speech in the auditorium. haha.

So here's our final hours in our Comm3 class. 




I really had fun conquering my fears. I met more friends and got to know my friends better. Thank you so much Ma'am Tanoy for that wonderful experience. I really can't believe you're the sister of one of the terror teachers in the university. It's seems that you just have opposite personalities. Anyways, I'll miss this class...and good luck to my grade:)

Negros Escapade

11:49:00 PM ivannejuare 0 Comments

Well, it has been a month since we went to Negros to conduct some survey as part of our Econ102 class. At first I thought it was my chance to tour around Negros, that's why I agreed to join the group. My second reason was because my friends are on the same group. The survey was so time consuming and we were so tired that we didn't get to have the time to tour.  Nevertheless I had fun, though it didn't turned out the way I expected it to be.




My First Marshmallow Roasting



After our truth-or-dare game








Photo courtesy of Nadin and Shane:)

HAYSKUL

10:20:00 PM ivannejuare 0 Comments


Sa mga ganitong pagkakataon, mas lalo kong namimiss ang mga kaklase ko sa hayskul. Yung mga kabaliwan. Yung mga kababawan. Yung pagkapasaway. Namimiss ko yung mga panahon na magkasama kami. Namimiss ko yung kulitan, tawanan, iyakan at pati na rin yung mga awayan at tampuhan. Hinahanap hanap ko yung mga taong kilala ako ng buong buo...yung mga taong nakita akong lumaki. Namimiss ko yung mga halos hindi maubos-ubos na tsismisan. Namimiss ko yung mga bakanteng oras na ginawang panahon para pag-usapan yung mga sekreto at crush namin. Namimiss ko yung mga panahong ok lang maging parang bata ako. Namimiss ko sila. Masaya naman ako kasama ang mga bagong kaibigan ko. Pero iba sila. Iba rin kayo. 

Nang unang tao ko sa kolehiyo, may isinulat akong tula para sa mga kaklase at kaibigan ko sa hayskul. Pero hindi ko matapos-tapos. Hindi ko mahanap ang tamang mga salita. Pero kamakailan lang, sa wakas, natapos ko rin! 

 *****

Hindi ko mapagtanto kung paano ko sisimulan ang tulang ito
Napakarami kong nais sabihin at isulat
Ngunit tila nilamon ng lungkot ang aking kamalayan
Ang nais ko lamang ay ang makasama ko muli kayo

Ang awitin sa ating pagtatapos ay patuloy kong pinapakinggan
Musika nito'y lalong lumungkot sa aking pandinig
Mga salita'y lalong tumagos sa aking puso
Mahigit isang taon na pala mula ng tayo'y magtapos at magkawalay

Yakap ang ating mga alaala'y naglakbay ako sa panibagong yugto ng aking buhay
Nakahanap ako ng mga bagong kaibigan
Masaya man ako sa piling nila
Patuloy pa rin akong nangungulila sa ating samahan

Sandigan ko kayo sa loob ng mahabang panahon
Hingahan ng aking mga saloobin
Lahat ng aking lihim marahil ay batid ninyo
Isang barkadang pinagbuklod at pinaghiwalay ng pagkakataon

Kung maari ko lang sanang ibalik ang panahon
Hindi ako magdadalawang isip na balikan ang mga sandaling tayo'y magkasama
Nais kong madama muli ang inyong piling...
Maging malayang ipakita ang totoong ako

Uulit-ulitin kong pakinggan ang ating mga paboriting awitin
Kahit pa nalimot na ito ng karamihan
Madalas kong pagmamasdan ang ating mga larawan
Kahit pa kumupas pa ito, saloobin ko'y di magbabago

Lumipas man ang ilang taond hindi tayo magkita
Pumuti man ang buhok nating at tayo'y magkaapo
Hinding hindi ko makakaligtaan na tayo'y naging magkaklase    at magkaibigan
At lahat ng ito ay nagsimula sa HAYSKUL.



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