Funny!

Top 10 Reasons Why There Couldn’t Be a Filipino-American US President

By David Letterman

10. The White House is not big enough for in-laws and extended relatives.

9. There are not enough parking spaces at the White House for 2 Honda Civics,
2 Toyota Land Cruisers, 3 Toyota Corollas, a Mercedes Benz, a BMW , and
an MPV (My Pinoy Van).

8. Dignitaries generally are intimidated by eating with their fingers at State dinners.
7. There are too many dining rooms in the White House – where will they put
the picture of the Last Supper?

6. The White House walls are not big enough to hold a pair of giant wooden
spoon and fork.

5. Secret Service staff won’t respond to “psst… psst” or “hoy.hoyhoy!”

4. Secret Service staff will not be comfortable driving the presidential car with a Holy Rosary hanging on the rear view mirror, or the statue of the Santo Nino on the dashboard.

3. No budget allocation to purchase a Karaoke music-machine for every room in the White House.

2. State dinners do not allow “Take Home”.
AND THE NUMBER I REASON WHY THERE COULDN’T BE A FILIPINO-AMERICAN U.S. PRESIDENT IS…

1. Air Force One does not allow overweight Balikbayan boxes!

Cupertino Library membership

Image via WikipediaMy summer vacation is almost ending. I have to say that I'm mostly disappointed with it. The two great things that came out of it was my sister visiting and the wedding. But other than that, I have found myself bored and actually wanting to go back to work. I will be getting my wish soon as I have a few weeks left and then its back to the long back and forth between SJ and PH. I can already feel myself feeling tired and stressed from the long commute but its better than being at home. I don't mind being at home. It's the person who's at home that I mind being with that's the problem! Enough said.

This is an ok city to live in but I think I have been spoiled with Cupertino with their nice, spacious and modern library. The library in the city where I live is tiny....that's about how I would describe it. I went there once and I was sadly disappointed. I did sign up for a library card since my library card privileges have been revoked due to the bad economy. Yes! Cupertino wants library card members to prove that they live in that city before they will give you a library card. If you would still want to have a library card there, you need to pay $80 dollars a year. The bad economy, that's what! I work for the school district in that city but I can't even get a library card there! I borrow books from that library to use in my class and now, I can't! Unless I shell out the $80 dollars. What I also like is being able to access for free bookflix and tumblebooks. The kids like reading stories online from scholastic books because I used to have a library card there. My husband said I should write to the city or the library and ask them if its possible to get a free membership. He said I have nothing to lose. I might, or I might not. Maybe I should write to one of those council members to visit the school periodically. One of the reasons that I hesitate is that a few years back, one of the CLIP kinder class was considering a trip to the Cupertino Library since the Calabazas Library which is part of the San Jose Library system has been closed for the last 2 years. What did the Cupertino Library say? Nope! Since the school was in San Jose, it should visit a San Jose Library. Hmm...that's sad.

I like the Cupertino Library, but in this case, I think there's no point in writing. But just in case you know anyone in the Cupertino council, maybe you can ask them why employees who work in the district and who will be using those resources to students who are in the district, can't be given a free membership.

A Year Without Writing

It's been almost a year since I've written in my personal blog. I also maintain a special education blog, albeit anonymously. Not because I write crazy stuff in there, sometimes I am tempted to! But because, oh wait, that is why I maintain it anonymously. You never know what else comes up! Crazy!

I've been busy with work (as usual) and more importantly with more school work. This is the first time that I am actually looking forward to not studying again, but I have to. I started with clearing my credential last year but before that I had to do my CLAD coursework because my emergency credential for that was going to expire after a year. I did it with University of Phoenix and it was a lot of work! For those of you who think that online work is much easier, wrong wrong and wrong! There's so much work. A lot of work I think compared to gImage via Wikipediaoing to a regular class. If you enroll in the face to face class, you probably go to class twice or thrice a week but in an online class (depending on the class) you have to post 6 posts or more, sometimes daily and there are more readings (about 4 chapters a week) and more papers (one assignment and around 4 major papers) or more! Then what I hate the most in UOPX is the "group paper" which in reality just 2 - 3 people end up making anyways. That was what I disliked the most about UOPX. I wish they would do away with that because I think its a waste of time and its a lot of stress. Also, I understand the need to put references but APA is just a killer. Worse, other students do not even bother learning about APA. So in the end, one or two people do the APA references. And being that we're not experts at it, its even more maddening when a professor penalizes you for writing the wrong format!

So its been year since I've written anything in my blog because I'm swamped with another kind of writing. Oh well, I'm looking forward to completing it within the year...soon....

Writing

One of the things that I really dislike, still do, a little is having to write. I'd hate it if I was asked to write something related to work. The more pressure there was to write (like having to submit it to a head), the more I hated it. Not to mention I'd put it off and procrastinate. Going to grad school cured me a little of that. I remember Ms. Babes (may God rest her soul), she told me that if I hated doing it, I should learn to like it so that it won't be a long drawn out and painful process anymore and it was apparently something that I would a lot of anyways. She gave very good advice, and no wonder, she used to write for the Manila Bulletin and worked in the Philippine embassy back in the day. So, in my first grad school, I had a lot of reporting and writing to do. I had to write my report before reporting it in class. I had to do a lot of readings and summarizing that information. Later on, I appreciate the work that I had to do. Next, in my second masters degree, the same is true! We would write papers and it culminated in a case study. Writing it was not as bad as I'd expected and it was an experience that I really like since I basically talked about my whole experience and not just some testing that I had to do. It was more of a story of a child.

Now, gasp...I am back to a job where there are lots of writing. I have to write a report about a test, observations, fill out an entire Webform and then as icing on a cake, I have classes to take to clear my credential. For my first paper for my first online class, I labored long and hard about what I was going to say. After awhile, it just came to a point where I wrote, checked for grammar and spelling, checked for plagiarism (that's why I love PlagiarismChecker) and that's about it. 

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I love the Library!

Now more than ever (since I can finally drive!), I've borrowed a lot of books from the library. It finally came to a point where I could not request for holds because I maxed them out...hehehe...but I just love the library! I love the Cupertino Library because they're pretty quick with answering holds. I don't know if volunteers do it or their staff are just quick. Now I know why they are no. 1 in the Santa Clara county area. They are just great! Also, I think it has something to do with the fact that a lot of people, and I mean a lot from the Cupertino area really take time to go to the library. Last year, I had kids who told me that one of their favorite things to do during the weekend was to borrow books from the library. And they got that because of their parents. Not surprisingly, their parents were Asian...hmm...is there a trend here?

The next library that I love would be the King library because of their huge collection of books that I use as reference for my online classes. Sure, online books are good but there's nothing like the feel of a book not to mention less strain on the eyes.

I cannot help but compare both of these libraries though. Well, the West Valley library since that is where I pick up my books. I don't drive all the way down to the busy downtown San Jose just to get books. I must say that I am still not too keen on the West Valley library because of the experience that I had the first time that I was going to get a book that I had on hold. First, they have this sort of weird system of putting holds together. Up until now, I am not sure whether its by last name or by date from which the media is available. Hm....so just to be sure I scour my last name and then look at other sections when I have more books to take out. The second reason was that very unfriendly Asian girl who works at the West Valley library. The lady at the information was very helpful but she was just mean! Like a tiger about to eat a prey. I understand that they were closing but I was only asking a question, which by the way she did not answer! But she was just mean, mean! I am a taxpayer for the city of San Jose and I would just hate that those hard-earned tax dollars pay for her meanness. I hope she doesn't perpetuate it to other hapless and unsuspecting people like me, who just wants to know, what the heck is your system? Looking back, how did I figure out Cupertino? Simple, there was an explanation at the side of the reserves section. Duh....I can read...why don't they post the same thing in San Jose? I have yet to see that mean girl again and if I do, I will take her name and just drop a word or two about her meanness. No one should be treated that way, especially for someone who works in a public library.

Still, Cupertino is my favorite library. I just wish though that they had more references that I get from the San Jose public libraries. But still, she was mean mean mean!!!!!

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