First Time
Heck, I won't be discussing anything censor-worthy here. You got the wrong idea. I may be green, all-over but I'm also sane, 100%. :) Anyway, I'd like to welcome you to my green mind. CHARAN!!!!! This is my very first blog..ever... And I am enjoying the novelty of its first time's. Ya know... choosing the background, the title of your blog, the title of your article. Writing with instant layout. It's like being in my college journal without the hassle of dealing with ink-brained people from the Publishing House. Instant ayos.. aheheh.. (But I hope I cud have more freedom in designing my page. Maybe I still need to learn how to costumize it.)
What's with the title?
Well... I thought about it for almost three hours. That's faster compared to how I came up with my Editorial Column title when I was in 4th year. It took me a month or so... It's not very easy to come out with a title that could represent yourself. Your column name is like your boobs, its the first thing men or people would stare at if they find your face not very enticing. If people don't like reading, the title of a write up (and the content also) could change his whole view about reading. Just like how a boobs could change a man's view of an unpretty face.
For people who don't like to read, catching their attention using your title is crucial. It should make them curious that it would bug them to know what you have to say and should make them read the first paragraph of your write up. It's up to the writer if he can sustain that attention for the next few paragraphs. But for now, striking up a cerebral dialogue with an unsuspecting victim, este audience is the name of the game. At shempre umandar ang pagka-hornalista ko.I've been with the school paper journalss for almost nine years (highschool pa lang ko, papampam na talaga ako... nagsusulat na ako at tuwang tuwa ako pag nakikita ko pangalan ko sa mga dyaryo... aheheh).
A note on Personal Writing: Writing would not be fun if it is not appreciated by a reading audience. Before, I thought writing is just a personal thing. Sort of a Diary. I used to own one. I wrote just to have an emotional outlet. But I thought, why hide it if I have something sensible to say. One's thoughts won't make a difference unless the person is able to communicate them. Using any kind of medium, say ahhh... writing! (Pero sa totoo lang, talagang kulang ako sa pansin. KLSP. Aheheh... )Kaya hanggang ngayon hayok na hayok parin ako sa paggamit ng MSWord saka Notepad. At mahal na mahal ko ang English alphabet at Alpabetong Filipino. Pero ha... I was only able to fully appreciate writing when I started working. Kasi siguro I don't have enough time na for it. And there's no way that I could voice out the "inis" I always have to suffer (and control narin) pag nasa work ako. Haayy... work... that's another story...
Back to naming conventions, in highschool it was "My Perspective." Ang selfish noh? Like I had a choice. It's the standard for the EIC's column in the Journal (The CLAHS Fountain). In the Thomasian Engineer Media, I named it "Spur of the Moment". Sabi ko: parang ang fleeting naman ng mga sinasabi ko dito. I realized that since i write on the moment's spur, I may have written stuff which I did not really mean. I may have written it because of the present's passion for it. That may be interpreted as that. But really, before... I thought of it as something that would make me appear as a spontaeneous person. (Which I usually am, hehheh but not all of the time.) Although its not very spontaenous because editors would have to modify how i said/discussed it. If I was angry and was cursing in my column, editors/moderators would try to tone it down and neutralize it without losing the message. Heck, altering what I want to say when i'm enraged will lose its message. They won't know that I'm totally pissed off. Well, media is not media without the censorship. But I'm quite thankful of the censorship, else I would have kicked my own butt with my very good emotional stability and self control especially with issues regarding the faculty's admin, etc. Basta, I taught I would only write if I'm inspired and that I'd be a more effective writer if I am passionate about what I'm writing about. Gets mo?
E bakit nga ba Green Minded? E kasi Pervert tlaga ako... Yes. I admit it. I could be greener than the most crass person alive. Give me a word and I'll give you a way how to relate it with dirty sex. ahehhehe.. Kidding aside, I think its only natural for me, for us to think about it. Because we are in our early adult years, where sex is rampant ang rubber is cheap. I'm not saying that I've indulged in it. It's just that I'm more educated (with sex)than other women and I'm more open-minded than most women. Aside from the fact that I attended a college where male hormones are raging 24/7 and sex talk is as ordinary as breathing your share of Metro Manila's polluted air. Mag eng'g ka ba naman ewan ko kung di ka magmukhang lalake! Join the boys talk or be OP forever. There were times when I would even initiate it and my boys would cringe at the great degree of pervetedness that they have taught me. Haha. I've been a corrupted soul the very first day I set foot at Eng'g. It's actually liberating to admit that because it makes other people sort of... become comfortable with you. They'd have the idea that you can talk about anything under the sun. That you are a real and unpretentious person. Well, I have been like this since I can remember. What you see is what you get.
Isa pa, I believe that green-minded people are very good innovators, because there's nothing that could limit their very wild imagination. They could think of anything they like. They are more understanding than most people are. They have the whole universe in their thinking caps. I want to be like that. O diba? Kaya ung ako sayo mag-green ka na? Sige na... indulge.. ahehehe..
At shempre para may impact... Son of Moto na background ang pinili ko... wala lang. Green kasi ahehe. I could always choose the pink one... Kasi I'm still maarte pero mas may dating sakin toh. Mas astig.
PROUD TOMASINOS ROAR FOR FOUR
Nga pala... UST Salinggawi won in the cheerdance. This is our 4th straight year. ROAR FOR FOUR ang drama ng LOLAH moh! I wasn't able to watch it, but I'm very happy about it. My startgroup-mate Eric, UP magna cum laude I think, was sad about it that he started to write about it in the forums. I actually made some retorts on his claims. But I haven't posted it... yet. Being my bitchy self, I'm still editing out some foul statements and still cross checkin' if may have written offensive stuff to him, since they lost to us, (by a fraction of a point, 0.22 to be exact). Since the first time that I met him, he's been talking about CDC like it matters to him big time, so I'm very careful not to get into his nerves.
I also tried to strike a chat with an officemate about it. I actually got disappointed at how she reacted about it when I told her the 'GOOD NEWS" since we are both Thomasians. Sabe nya: "Oo nga eh, hanggang dun na lang tayo..." I'm not appalled by her disloyalty, because I also, have times when I don't like being Thomasian, (but hopefully, I'm proud I am most of the time). I'm more concerned about the negativity that she saw in the good news. There's a reason to celebrate yet she sees the reason not to celebrate. Such nega... Like Thomasians don't have hope in other fields. I just hate it when people do not see the bright side. I just hate when they criticize destructively. I just hate it when people disregard the efforts of other people. If she means about basketball, then she should also think that UAAP's overall winner has been UST for the past 32 years. I'm in my open-mindedness mode, so I tried to figure out how I could understand her without pissing myself off. But, I'm already disappointed. I'm just sorry I initiated that conversation. I pretended to have went back to work before I could even stir an argument with her. She's a senior but I am a no hold's barred debater when somebody starts on me.
Enough said for my first blog. Haha.. wala kasi ako magawa kanina.. I'm getting tired of having to solve many EE problems... ('been preparin' for the board since april... lapit na... sa november 5-6, 2005, i would write about it one of these days) saka I've been rolled-off a project dito sa work koh... kaya no tasks for me today. I actually missed having to write my ideas. I'm used to typing my ideas kase rather than literally writing it, kaya i can't do it unless i'm in front of the computer. ü
BTW, i really want to share this :
http://ustexchange.yehey.com/124/the_glory_of_winning_and_the_agony_of_losing
