Happy birthday Dr. Senatin!!!

When I first started out in grad school way back in 2001, I don't think I considered myself friendly with any one professor. But that all changed with Dr. Senatin. She was my professor in I think 3 subjects. She was kind, generous, understanding although tough on you when she needs to be. When I was almost finished with my academic units, we asked her to still be there so she could be our thesis adviser. Seh has stayed true to her promise. Even though she has officially retired (60 is the retiremement age for educators), she has stayed on and I am sure that if given the chance, she can do wonders for the school, especially with her professionalism and wisdom.
So today on this special day, Happy, happy, happy birthday Dr. Ruby B. Senatin!!!! You are truly a jewel, not just for three but for all the people whose lives you hae touched. God bless!!!!

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What I watch on TV

Since we don't have cable (I think that's a blessing or else we'll never leave the house to earn a living, in which case, we'd probably end up losing the cable TV), I like to watch shows in certain TV networks.

Mondays
Cold Case - RPN 9
Attic Cat - GMA 7

Tuesdays
Ambush Makeover - RPN 9
Attic Cat - GMA 7

Wednesday
CSI - Channel 23
Attic Cat - GMA 7


Thursday
Desperate Housewives - Channel 23
Attic Cat - GMA 7

Friday
The O.C. - RPN 9
Attic Cat - GMA 7


Saturday
Chika Mo, Chika Ko - UnTV
Medical Investigation - RPN 9
CSI: Miami - RPN 9
Gilmore Girls - Channel 23


Sunday
NCIS - RPN 9
Without a Trace - RPN 9

Yeah, I am a cough potato. I admit it. I know what they say about all that television making your mind dull. Well, at least I watch mostly English shows so at least my English doesn't get that dull....hehehehehe.

Watching news is like the given here. No matter how depressing it all seems, we still watch the news.

The shows I miss? Let's see, there's Apprentice, Survivor, new episodes of Gilmore Girls and Will and Grace would be nice too. The only reason why I haven't watched Will and Grace is that theyr'e mostly reruns in the network that they're in. I'd rather watch other shows instead. Or go to sleep early. Hehehehe. Like that ever happens.

Almost Lost in Quiapo

Today, I had to go to Legarda again. Actually, I even forgot where the place was. I thought Recto, Arlegui, finally, it's Mendiola. Hehehe. Oh well. I don't go there often but now I had to to meet with my professor. I had to show her the revisions that I made and ask her to sign my letter.

I knew that I had to go to Quiapo but from there, couldn't picture where to go to. As usual, I asked my sister for directions, and being poor in spatial intelligence, it was difficult for me to picture it in my mind. But I took my chance.

I got off at Taft and from there took a jeep to Quiapo. I kept my eyes out for a possible jeep to transfer to go to Mendiola or at least to Legarda. I was lucky, I saw a jeep so I hailed it. I was worried that I would get stuck in the traffic in the long line where the G Liners were. But the jeep used the other side of the street. At least we didn't get stuck in traffic. It was not that far from Mendiola and before I knew it, I arrived in Mendiola.

Going back to Quiapo was a different story. Most of the jeeps that I saw were for Quiapo - Echague. I had no choice but to hail that and just thought I'd figure out what I'd do next when I got there. I thought they were going back the way that we went there but they turned a different way. It looked familiar. When I was in college, I would visit my sister who lived in Manila and took that jeep going to Quiapo. It looked different since it has been a long time since I went there but at least it was familiar. When I got to Quaipo, my problem was how to get to the other side. There was an underpass but it looked creepy. And I've heard horror stories about that place. Plus the fact that there weren't any people going that way. And that's surprising. I knew it was the last place I would want to be. I decided to take the overpass but it was farther. Better safe than sorry.

Finally, I got to the other side. And hailed a jeep going to Lawton. When I got there, I found a bus and it was only me and another passenger. Yes!!! I decided to sit close to the front of the bus. More passengers started coming in.

What annoyed me was this fat old man, who was really huge, decided to sit beside me. I can't think for the life of me why one would decide to sit with someone when there were a lot of empty seats in the bus. I couldn't stand it, I felt claustrophic and crowded so I stood up and looked for another seat. The f*ng bastard. May he rot in hell. Hehehehe. I was that annoyed.

I sat all by myself in the seat for 3 people. I placed my paperbag beside me on the seat. Another guy decided to sit beside but since the paperbag was there, he couldn't very well sit that close to me.

I was happy that I would go home early. It was around 12NN. But alas, my celebration was shortlived. We were there in Coastal road for like an hour. Some stupid people, probably in Cavite decided to do counter-flow. Probably to ease the traffic in Cavite. Those assholes. It wasn't the first time that that had happened. Last Saturday, it was the same thing only shorter, for about 30 minutes. We were so tired from sitting and waiting. We would've arrived in Las Piñas earlier if not for that. What a waste of time and gasoline.

Work checklist

It's almost the middle of August and I only have two posts (including this one). I'm really busy, busy, busy.

I finally finished the revisions to Chapter 1 & 2. Even finised typing it. Now I am working on Chapter 3, particularly making my questionnaire. I've already finished including the corrections, then I'll print it out and submit it for approval to the principal. Hopefully, ask respondents to answer it within the week or next week. I just hope its this week so I can start on the tallying and the Math stuff that goes with it. I know I have to do the computation or if I am lucky, find someone who can actually do it.

Another thing to remove my list, or at least I am working towards ticking it off is the term test. I just finished it today. Yes!!!

I finished Quiz #3, and I still have Quiz 4 and the last Mastery test. I can't believe that the first term is almost over.

Let's see what else I have to do. I know there's a lot but at least I got some out of the way. Or I'm working towards getting it out of the way.

Still a long way to go but I'm making progress.

Welcome August...

Welcome August. The month of TOS, term test drafts, class standing notice and 70%. Whew!!!!