Acquaintances

If you have watched 'When Harry Met Sally' you would be familiar with the argument of Harry and the plot itself that men and women can't really be friends.

It's the whole idea that men can't be friends with women because they would always want to have sex with them regardless if they are attractive or not which would ultimately send the friendship to doom especially when their female friends are a.) not interested b.) are interested and if they would agree to it, their friendship would usually end there more than it blossoms into something else which isn't exactly friendship anymore.

Now bringing the topic to my age group and the Philippine setting I would agree to the idea that men and women can't be friends with proper contextualization.

Firstly, let's remove the sex issue and bring it down to 'liking or loving', taking into consideration that we are not as liberated as the Westerners.

Now, I would say that there are two types of male friends, the jerks and the decent ones and based on my experience, befriending any of the two and developing a very close relationship with either produces a problematic scenario on the female friend's part.

If there would be any striking differentiating factor within the way these two types of males profess their liking (explicitly and implicitly) to their female friend, it would be the timing. Nothing more and nothing less.

Jerks, being jerks and let's admit it, a little less on the thinking area hence the term jerks, (There are smart jerks, but the fact that they are jerks makes them stupid) would be the first to hit on their female friends and due of course to the their lack in gentlemanly and romantic technique combined would promptly cost their friendship with their female friend.

The decent ones, who are usually over thinkers or cowards or sometimes both are those that survive the friendship a little longer, (thanks to their overly-thinking brains that surpasses the shallow relationship with the female friend which makes them slightly more mature and would thus be considered as an asset) tend to implicitly profess their feelings. There really isn't anything wrong with this picture except if the female friend is not in the least bit interested of taking the friendship up a notch.

So really, men and women can't really be friends. They can superficially be friends though, which is a lot better than nothing at all or call them acquaintances to be precise.

A Girly Afternoon

DMC Therapy 

Spent most of the afternoon today making dmc bracelets whilst watching Meg Ryan romcom films which I have all watched and giggled to more than once already.

There are just those times when one wants to relax and not be intellectually stimulated but rather to wallow in sentimentalism once in a while, or in other words, I was such a girl this afternoon. :))

Meanie

Me: What are you looking at me like that for? You're going to comment again that I look thin right?
MJ: No! I was going to say you look haggard.
Me: That's even worse! That's another way of saying I look ugly.
MJ: Would you rather I lied?
Me: So you admit that I do look ugly.
MJ: It's just your headband okay. What kind of headband is that anyway.

Mj was a meanie today but I spent the last part of the afternoon with her laughing about what happened at DevComm Class , talking about men, eating at a Japanese resto while giving me all the Hana Kimi episodes and Kenshin the movie files.

Sablay Moments # 2

We had to present our Development Communication Plan in class as part of our Finals but we had to present it in the Filipino language even if our powerpoint presentation was in English so imagine the reaction of the class when two of my groupmates reported their parts:

Yanna: Narito nga po pala ang mga KONTENTO ng aming hand-out sa naganap na forum.

Ms. G: Umm. Iha, laman.

Riza: Naganap nga po pala ang aming forum noon Enero bente, DALAWANGPUNG LIBO'T TATLO

Hearts Abound

It is hearts day today and I went home from school carrying two white roses - which I bought for my Lola and Aunt.

Valentines day isn't such a lame day, as I previously thought it was.(I thought it was a highly capitalist celebration which obligates people to give and receive love in the form of every imaginable heart-shaped materials)

Valentines is actually a perfect excuse to be extra nice to others, the reason being that love is celebrated on this very day. It's a nice occasion to bring home flowers and to receive cake, and ask people eagerly how their day went, who greeted them, who gave them gifts. At school it's nice to ask around the plans of classmates going out on dates. It's a nice day to officially celebrate two or more people's special relationship especially when birthdays and Christmas would be far too long occasions to look forward too.

Feel the love today, or everyday. Happy Valentines Day!

Book Blowout

I recently celebrated my birthday and had these awesome books as gifts. I shall be reading them in between my heavy school workload because my curiosity can't be helped.

I'd like to thank Jhobs, Arnie and my dad. <3

Bimbo

Today marks the end of our college's three day job fair and it was an interesting experience going around the booths of the not so diverse and unfortunately few companies which were present.

There was a magazine company which some of my friends were eyeing. We were mentioning some of their qualifications like being in the know with the entertainment industry and being fashionable when I suddenly blurted out:  'well they might as well stated that they have openings for bimbos'.

We had a good laugh but my classmate Rachelle was taken aback at my hasty generalization. Good times. Good times.

Sablay Moments

Scene 1:

Maan: Sino nga ba ang founder ng KFC?

Me: Alam ko K yun eh.

Nina: edi si Kenny Rogers.

Scene 2:

Riza: Do you mean to say that my answer is wrong Prosec?

Prosec: Yes it is.

Riza: What do you mean by yes?

Scene 3: 

Maan: Ano nga ba yung game na nilaro natin kanina?

Me: Edi pass a message with a twist

Maan: ah, thank you.
(it was plainly: act the message)

Scene 4:

Joyce: Ano uli ang tagalog ng Firefly?

Riza: Farfly?

Maan: hahaha FARFLY

Me: edi tutubi.

Joyce: Ano ba wala namang ilaw yun eh.

Chin Up

Yesterday I found out what it is to still keep one's head up despite a fall. Literally and Figuratively.

Literal:

I had to be at school at 8:30 am to meet up with my team mates for the semi finals at the Dean's cup debate.

Going to school at rush hour entails me to take four public transportation: a jeep, an fx, a jeep and another jeep. I was worried I would be late so upon alighting the first jeep and walking a short distance to get to the fx, I was overtaking people but the next thing I knew, the ground had suddenly become nearer to me. Both my hands were touching the ground and my right knee was supporting my weight yet in an instant I helped myself up whilst carrying my heavy backpack and shoulder bag and acted as if nothing happened and headed for the fx.

Before meeting up with  my team mates who ran late, I headed to the clinic and requested for my wound to be cleaned. As the nurse was cleaning it, I shared that the last time I tripped and scraped my knee was way back in second grade. The punitive yet kind nurse upon finding out that I was a senior said that if I were her daughter she'd pinch me for being careless.

Figurative:

Upon listening to the first minute of the adjudicator's general comments on the debate about the motion: THW privatize police which was the chosen motion by our competitor for winning the toss coin, I knew our team lost.

There were no hard feelings of course and our team happily congratulated the CDE department and bade them luck at the finals.

Ate Iris who is a Debate Alumni told me that the policy our house created was difficult to support but added that what's important is that we had fun.

There are those days that things won't go as hoped for but it's a learning experience. I've learned that preparation is key. Why was I worried about being late in the first place? Because I knew I crammed  studying for prelims in French, our ppt for Dev Comm report, and my research on crime and punishment. Why did we lose at the semis? Because we weren't able to train and practice constructive and rebuttal speeches in the span of four days given to us to prepare.

Yet there's no use in dwelling on shortcomings. At best we won't repeat these actions and walk away as a bruise-free winner and at worst we will keep on encountering these types of situations until it's painful enough for us to endure and finally say, things will go as hoped for and as planned for.

Defending Word of the Lourd

My thesismates and I feeling ecstatic 
about the outcome of our thesis defense

Tips for a smooth sailing thesis experience:

1. you have to be passionate about your thesis topic

2. you have to be smart in selecting your groupmates

3. you have to be married to your thesis 

All these you have to endure for one year if you want to graduate on time or if you want to run the extra mile, go for the 'best thesis' award and graduate with flying colors :)

Grateful for Riza and Yanna who share the same interest as I on sociopolitical issues which have produced this thesis topic:

Satire as a Way of Presenting Sociopolitical Issues: A Study on the Perceptions of 3rd Year Comm Students on Word of the Lourd