SURVIVING UP
I can’t believe that I endured a month in UP. Anyways, all is well in our BH. We actually all get along. I used to wake up at 4:30 in the morning, nowadays 5am, I am always the 4th who uses the bathroom. But ofcourse we have 2 CRs so no fuss about that.
Then I eat my petty breakfast as I complete my outfit for the day…that’s the problem in having no uniform, you must have tons of clothes or atleast be creatful. Well it has been 3 weeks and I haven’t repeated a single outfit. Yipee! But I know I’d have to one day.
During Mondays and thurs we ride the ikot to our buildings. Mhy and Rose stops by at NIGS and just walk to the Math building because tokis are so scarce. While my first subj is just next door, College of Science.
My subjects are pretty ok. Natsci2 and Archaeology are both interesting (that’s why I took them) while Math2 and Kas1 are pretty ok. They say I’m lucky coz I got Sir Tantoco coz he is notorious for giving most of his students a grade of 1. I’m pretty happy about that but I’m not satisfied with the discussion. Ma’am Caring is ok too. She cracks few jokes but I hate it that we have an assignment every meeting. And she gives very low grades. My highest would be 1.5 nd lowest is 2. She’s so strict when it gets to written exercises though she never tells us what’s wrong and you’d just be surprised when you get that score. My fave is Creative Writing 10. besides that Sir Manalo is a renowned professor, I really love writing. Actually Creative writing should’ve been my course but I chose the more practical one which is journalism. I love reciting in class. I hope all my profs already know my name.
ROOKIE FAIR
I’ve already met a lot of people, already have some crushes. Hehe…. But ofcourse my blockmates would be like my barkada now. Last Wednesday we attended the rookie camp. I think you could’ve heard about it if you were tuned in to 99.5 on that day. We had our block pic at the sunken garden, tired the other boots. The we all had lunch together which was fun coz we get to bond with each other. The ones present are Missy (blockhead). Vienna (blocktail), Dyan, Reg, Laurice, Coeli, JM (Tuazon), Matt, Lennen, Emman, Carlos…I think that’s it. After that we went to Vienna’s BH and I think we just talked and talked for 2 ½ hours, exchanging stories. When we got back the henna tattoo booth was already closed to registration =( Then the others left. We just sat on the field until we decided to sen a shoutout that said: hello to all K^ members specially to those people who already left and didn’t come.
Good thing we saw Lennen (he left us after lunch) so we played a game of cards in the middle of the sunken. Then we kept sending greetings to the DJ. He even waved at us. Hehe… After the 1st game of cards we gave a shoutout to be announced on air. It said: “Congratulations to Lennen for losing a game of monkey-monkey in the middle of Sunken. Sikat ka!” Then I lost in the 2nd game and the DJ read our greeting: “Magshift na kayo sa Journ! The best ang Journ! Papansin talaga ang K6!” Hehe…it was so fun.
CMC FIRST NIGHT FUNK
I forgot to write about last week. Last week, Tuesday, our college (CMC-College of MassCom) held an org fair and concert. The first band was Giniling festival. We were at shock at first when we heard the lyrics of their songs but once the upperclassmen started cheering and singing we got the hang of it and was LSS with the song Siniling Giniling until the next day. Then it was Slowdive’s turn (I later found out that the vocalist was Justine’s schoolmate). The vocalist was very good and quite pretty too.It was just a shame when it started raining and we all needed to get inside the building. A couple of days later Ate Eliza said it was because the upperclassmen didn’t expect a lot to come that’s why thay thought it’s ok that the concert was at the parking lot and if it rains they can continue it inside. But since we were crammed we just all went home.
And for the finale….
FRESHTEEEEEEEEEEG
FOPC CONCERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It was just last night that I went to my first wild concert. I wore my fishnet outfit (the one I wore at the last Xmas party). Me and my boardmates were already late when we got ther (Bahay ng Alumni). There were so many people! And the line was soooooo long. Good thing my Blockmates were already there so I just slipped into their line (they were at the start!! Hehe) and my boardmates slipped in with Justine’s buddies. At first we were all seated at the floor. Chico and Delamar were the MCs. Slowdive was the opening number – the instruments were too loud and the vocalist’s voice couldn’t be heard. Then Candyaudioline played…a little sleepy… When Giniling Festival came on stage they wanted us to stand up. So we did! And Vienna, Matt (and his friend), Dyan (and her friend) made our way to the front. We shouted crazily the lyrics of Siling Giniling. It was funny coz most of the people didn’t know who they are. And we kept shouting “Jeje!” – the bassplayer’s name. And that was the beginning of a crazy night. 6cyclemin was there, sandwich, kjwan (the vocalist stage dived, which was so cool, we were already at the 2nd row by then), cambio (these bands are not in order ok), mojofly (my fave), Mongols (cool music), kitchie nadal (matt and I were already at the front by that time, Vienna got separated), sugarfree (the best voice I ever heard), moonstar 88, sessionroad, imago (the vocalist was very energetic, she kept on dancing, very amped up), kamikaze (one of the craziest lead singer I ever saw but I actually liked him…he’s uber ok but a little crazy hehe), parokya (this was the time that we realized that there were already outsiders that got inside, there was a wild moshpit so the FOPC and some students like us that were in front made a barricade, the guys in the back just kept pushing and pushing and I got really pissed off I kicked the guy behind me coz he wouldn’t stop elbowing us in front) then hale (atlast the band I was waiting for came, but I didn’t enjoy it that much because of the outsiders…I think they performed real great and I got to see Champ real near, he really does look like Atom). After all those performances there were still others like MYMP, Mayonaisse, Spongecola, etc. it was already 1am in the morning and Matt and I were already tired, not mentioning, soaking wet (in sweat and water because there were sprinklers, and oh by the way I’d have to thank that guy from FOPC who shared me his water-was I drained or what) All in all I got squished by the people, I almost fell headfirst in front because of the pushing, I was soaking wet including my bag, I was deaf for a while and I think I look totally disheveled. But it was worth it ü. Ofcourse I thank Matt hehe!! Hope you’d red this for not letting me fall to the ground when those blasted people kept pushing. Sayang nga coz Reg wasn’t able to join us. She was at the back and I don’t think she’d be able to find us.
Whe Matt and I decided to go home we were shocked to see the situation at the back. The floor was so wet, and dirty and people were standing just listening (unlike us at the front shouting, singing, and jumping-or was it just me?) well the back part was a mess and outside the building were so many people.
So I went to the Film center where my parents were parked. I could still hear MYMP playing. Sigh…I won’t be able to see mayonnaise perform. But atleast I saw some of my favorite bands. As we were going back to the BH I saw my boardmates walking so we let them hitch. I went to our room, changed clothes and went home where I slept so peacefully…away from the harsh and crazy world of moshpits, stage dives and very very loud rock music… But as I had said…it was all worth while. ü
She promotes the uniqueness of UP and I think she’s the one UP is looking for all of these years…we don’t want somebody who will bend us into an image of generic and mediocre students. We are what we are. And that’s what makes us truly UP. 