Who da Monster?!   Sinong Halimaw??! SINONG HALIMAAAWWW???!!! My Kuya, the greatest brother in the whole wide universe, just passed the UP Law Aptitude Exam! Now, to give you a background of LAE (Law Aptitude Exam), it's only the most sought-after exam in the metro. Maraming pumapatay just to pass the UP LAE. Meron ngang ibang aspiring lawyers na ang motto is, "It's UP or nothing". Eh pano ba naman, UP's only one of the best, if not the best, Law Schools in the whole country! To give you an idea how hard it is to get to UP LAW, an estimate of 4,000 people take the test every year, and only around 170 people are chosen to be admitted. Half of those are admitted automatically upon release of results, while the other half are sifted through interviews. Now, to give you an idea how MONSTROUS this Kuya of mine is, let's give you his background. My Kuya's (Luis Jose F. Geronimo) a graduate of Political Science from the Ateneo. He already took the LAE last 2004, but due to some personal reasons, he decided not to pursue it. When he passed his first LAE, he was automatically admitted, meaning he's in the top 60 or so and he need not undergo the interview. Now, when you don't have to undergo the interview, then you're the bomb. When he first took LAE, he took 1 month of review sessions from a center. However, this year, due to some difficulties as well, he was only able to review for the exam for one week. However, when results came out, AGAIN, he's one of the Top 60 or so who need not be interviewed to qualify. TWICE!!! He did it TWICE!!! Ngayon kung hindi pa sya halimaw, ewan ko na lang! The son of Miriam Defensor-Santiago allegedly killed himself because he didn't pass UP LAE (or my story could be twisted, please do verify). The Summa Cum Laude of UP Political Science Dept. didn't pass LAE when he took it last year. My brother had gone through a lot of difficulties and trauma, had only one week to prepare for the exam, has graduated PolSci for over 2 years (Cum Laude "only"), had difficulty answering the essay part because his hand was numb, plus the pressure of ending up nowhere if he doesn't pass the exam. And you know what? He did. HE ACED the exam, ate it like some peanuts sold in the street. It was a piece of cake for him. He passed! He's gonna be my schoolmate!!! I am so damn proud of my Kuya, and that's why I want the whole world to know about it! CLICK KA WITH JM LAST 1/17/2007 09:41:00 PM         0 Comments

Indecent Exposure   This is a flat-out futile attempt at writing a decent journal entry. Have you ever experienced something like this? You start your day off quite alright, reciting in your head thousands of words--comments, opinions, whatnots--that could majestically be tailored into a wonderful blog entry. All day you wait for that moment when your hands would touch the keyboards and, seemingly, all the words from the morning before would suddenly flow through your hands, word for word, letter by letter, down into the keyboard, and then to the screen in front of you. You anxiously wait for that moment to come. ANXIOUSLY, vigorously, frustratingly, nervously. When your day ends you rush home, throw all your mess down the floor, flex your hand muscles, twitch your neck a little left and right, and then, start laying your hands into that very precious keyboard, all words now ready to flow through your hands like blood gushing from a wound. But then, it doesn't happen. The word vomit just doesn't take place. The verbal diarrhea Miriam was talking about suddenly turns into constipation. You type a word. And then you erase it. You type again. You try to remember, but you can't. Suddenly all the words inside your head seems to have scrammed as if they were rallyists ready to be watered down by a fireman's hose. They're gone. All your bright ideas, your fantastic reviews, your stunning opinions--all gone. And then you start to drift into that void--the internet--and do other things instead. Suddenly, you have turned from one intelligent, highly-opinionated being to a dork being sucked in into the dark side. A miracle! I have typed a coherent, actually-sensible entry. Haha... just like they say, when you can't write about anything, write about nothing. Okay, imbento ko lang yun, pero totoo, right? That's my predicament for the past couple of days. I've been itching to get my hands on a keyboard everytime I thought of an idea, but by the time I get the chance, laziness suddenly befalls--becomes--me. It's as if I have this syndrome, this illness that whenever I face the screen, my brain would suddenly be drained of every knowledge it has ever contained. Weird, eh? Ano to, blogger's block? Hehe... Anyway, enough of this silly excuse for a blog entry. I'm really just trying to kill time (in a warm place? Sir Dalisay, is that you?). It's 11:30pm and I have a class in approximately 11 hours. I should really be sleeping by now, so I won't be all aloof and masungit tomorrow, but my body just isn't in the resting mood. Maybe after a few kicks of whatever. Anyhow, I'm out for now, see ya'll soon! (Haha ang ghetto). BTW, I'm setting up another blog, watch out for that. Medyo bumabalik ang pagka-socially-active individual natin eh. Or something. Basta, ewan, eto, passionate, well, actually agitated, about something. (Grabe ilang comma yun) Basta it's for a social cause, and I have high hopes for it (kahit na alam ko namang hindi ganun kalayo ang mararating ng aking pangarap--wow deep). Anyhow, hopefully I can manage to even start it with a decent layout. Hopefully. Pray with me, Amen. +++ Back to Blog CLICK KA WITH JM LAST 1/15/2007 11:40:00 PM         0 Comments

The anatomy of a dumbass   You wanna know who's pathetic? Lito Atienza and his crazy antics. I'm sitting here, enjoying my comfy Saturday morning when I accidentally surfed through his show on a local network and what do I see? Two men dressed in flower-clad polos fooling the nation with their moronic pursuits. I mean, what's with dressing up your son the same way you do? Will that fool the voters into thinking, "Hey, that looks like him! Maybe he acts like him too, let's vote for him!" I mean, duh, I don't believe making your son dress up like you is gonna win him elections. Poor boy, I don't even think he knows a zilch about politics, yet he's dragged into this whole circus of freak shows. I hope he doesn't win, it's for his own future. And the same goes for all the stupid politicians and non-politicians out there who are aiming to run for the upcoming elections, thinking we haven't learned from our previous mistakes. We have, fools, we're not gonna elect yet another set of stupid morons up there in Congress! Huh! After what you've done, lambasting our Constitution, saving a dumbass president's ass from getting ousted and whatnots, hey, it's payback time you trapos!!! It's gonna be the dawn of a new age come May 14. I registered, and I will damn hell vote. IF I find my name in that damn voter's list, but let's save that for another post. CLICK KA WITH JM LAST 1/06/2007 11:07:00 AM         0 Comments