Just what I have in mind right now

Prelim exam starts on Monday and ends on Wednesday -- that's the sked for the GE subjects. For the first time, I am not busy preparing test papers for English 1 or English 4. Finally, I don't have to teach English subjects. This sem, I don't have any English subject to teach to students from other colleges. But I got five professional subjects -- five subjects, four preparations. Okay lang. I still think that is better than having two or three preparations but dealing with non-Mass Comm. students.

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I wanted so much to attend the Cinemalaya Film Congress but I couldn't just leave my class. I even wanted my third year MC students to attend the conference but the university has a policy that no seminar or affair should be conducted before and after the exam week. Besides, I didn't have enough time to process the papers needed prior to attending conferences/ seminars. Sayang.

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I wonder how the people around are able to function well without even reacting to some obvious changes that seem so unacceptable. Till now, I still couldn't get why the powerful have to take things they used to give. And I wonder why despite uncertainty, everybody seems to act as if everything is normal. I don't know. Maybe I just feel like doing so much for so little. Perhaps.

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I want to watch alternative films like SAAN NAGTATAGO SI HAPPINESS? and KUBRADOR (an award-winning film written by Mr. Ralston Jover) but the venue is too far from here. I hope Cinemalaya Foundation will think about showing the alternative films on malls. And hopefully, the management of malls won't think of alternative films as trash -- just what SM thinks about local sexy films.

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May nakakaasar na naman sa local TV. I wonder what is in the head of the writers of Capt. Barbell. Ano ba yun? Bakit nagkaroon ng characters na Aerobika? Over-acting talaga si Rufa Mae. She knows nothing but cheap acting. I started forbidding my kids to watch Capt. Barbell because of the appearance of that character. Masama ang loob ni Charles because I used to allow him to watch that kaso lang, hindi ko ma-take ang lenggwahe ng Aerobika na character. I hope the writers would think that viewers are not as stupid as Aerobika. I thought even Mars Ravelo would not want that character to ruin his original Capt. Barbell idea. If only I were a relative of Mars Ravelo, I won't allow GMA to make a mess out of the original story.
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