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i'm in college! yay! i'm sweet sixteen and now i get to know the world! -BIG word of the University of the Philippines! yay!
so you get to ask: kolehiyala? nope. iska is the right term. kolehiyala could apply to young college socialites who get to party, because they're now FREE. am i not? basically, i'm a good girl. haha. and then i'm not part of the "socialite" group. being a UP student, i ought to be doing my job. what job? studying. being aware. wahehe.
technically we're all called mga iskolar ng bayan. so much for the 300% tuition fee increase; we freshies are paying 1000php per unit! reasonable as you may say. but compared to what scholars ought to pay, we're FAKE scholars. say it's THE premier state university. so why not give MORE funds for THE University of the Philippines. it's not JUST a state university/college. it is THE country's #1 -but the FAKE administration makes us FAKE scholars by having US pay for our education.
as far as we know, education for the nation's scholars is not JUST a priviledge but a RIGHT -a right, and that means we all have to equal. what makes us freshies different from the upperclassmen? it has all been a crafty plan of the government, taking small steps toward their plans of commercializing education.
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-sudden outburst of emotion.
maffei · Mon Sep 17, 2007 @ 10:22am · 0 Comments |
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the great mystery,,,(this is just the first post) :P |
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everyone's talking about the controversial 'da vinci code' of dan brown. i've personally read the book and i don't even find it that much convincing to be able to 'twist someone's faith'. on the other hand, i have read this book called "BABYLON MYSTERY RELIGION". i asked my dad where he got it and since when he had it but he took it away saying that it's not a kids' book. too late! -i've read enough to prove that my doubts do have basis. it talks about the harlot found in the book of Revelation in the Bible. it could be found in the beginning chapter(s) so when i first read it, i was sorta "whoa! creepy,,,". then that i realized (from the book) that the catholic church (could) be "the mother of harlots" said in the book of Revelation.
i realized that i used to pray almost ten times as much as to Mary than to the Lord as i used to be a catholic. a little background,,,i come from a catholic family and my mom was adopted by a priest. thats right, a priest! that's why my mom doesn't have that 'open mind' to Christianity (Protestantism, Baptist, and the like...). i came from a catholic school in Ilocos where i studied for 6 years and recently (3 yrs ago) moved to a Christian school here in Cainta. i din't have any knowledge about being a Born-Again Christian until 1st yr high (when me moved to the christian school) except that they call their priests as partors and have very small churches compared to the big cathedrals; they also don't have the holy communion everytime they celebrate their mass; their priests don't even get to dress up like the catholics and they can have a family! imagine serving God without celibacy!
but that was then, now i fully understand why these things are as they are in the Christian (as in NOT catholic) realm. as i said, i realized that i used to pra almost ten times as much to Mary than to the Lord as in the rosary (and we used to pray it every Tuesdays and Thursdays in school!). the vows of celibacy is also a great fraud as some priests and nuns have their own affairs... the Noli Me Tangere is true about it! another thing is that if you look at the "ten commandments" in a catholic church, they have ingeniously removed the commandment saying "thou shall not worship any image of man or any other creation,,," thus, the statues and idols in the catholic churches become permissible. going through the lives of the Popes in Roman Catholic history, we could clearly see how immoral most of them had lived. a lot were murderers, adulteres, money-and-power-hungry scoundrels! try to beat that! they had their own skeletons in their closets that were no sooner exposed while they were busy damning others as "unclean sinners who don't deserve to be in heaven". sorry if you don't see it as it is but just studying history would open your mind to this. i didn't learn that much from world history in school as i'm not that diligent at studying but if you read it once, you'd understand the plain facts; most problems in the world were caused by religion. the popes were behind much bloodshed in history that i couldn't fathom how were able to live their lives considered as "holy" while they order much killing! "no murderer has eternal life in him" that's what i've read (from the Bble). these were popes! how could they miss that part of the HOLY Book that they say they "preach"???
don't even think about saying i'm being absurd but believe me, it's true! so to sum up my forst post about this issue, i'm talking about looking at from a historical point of view (as in the papal biographies??).
PS: if you happen to read this and disliked it, don't condemn me, i just want to say (or write about) what i do believe in... anyway, this is just a journal,,,
maffei · Sat May 20, 2006 @ 01:55pm · 0 Comments |
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as i've (always) said,,,we're currently having the review classes for the upcoming entrance tests and i'm just learning a lot in a short time (i think)...hehe
it's despite the fact that i sit near very noisy and makulit friends! haha! blaugh but it's ok, they're a reason why i'm learning much - i'm kinda forced to study the lessons myself because they often (always) ask me to teach them! i sometimes go to shakehaus as early as 7am to teach our homework! whoa! i just got to pass that UPCAT exam! whoa! so much for today... ciao!
maffei · Mon May 15, 2006 @ 12:52pm · 0 Comments |
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waaahh!! i only got 58% in the diagnostic test in lsc! whoa! i don't get to pass on UP for that kind of score! crying how sad!... a friend of mine got 65% which is not so bad,,,how i pity my score of 58%!! i wouldn't even want my parents to see that kind of score! what a shame! gonk
maffei · Thu May 11, 2006 @ 06:27am · 0 Comments |
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thinkin about our future.... |
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we're attending review classes for the college entrance tests and i can say i'm very much happy with it. it's only now that i've seen some people serious about their future...we may not all pass the UPCAt but all colleges require you to pass their entrance exams... it's like the only key to have good education. i'm so proud of some friends who weren't taking school seriously, only to see that this time they take the review seriously! i mean it, these guys do care about their future (though hindi halata)! i remember one friend who actually said that he'd do anything just to be in UP! whoa! another friend also asked me to teach himin our lessons because the homework was just hard so i ended up teaching him at 7:30 (i kept him waiting for 30 mins) am! wow! now i have proven that people really take their future seriously... one said that he'd rather join the army if he flunks just to have a career! nah,,, wrong move! the army's got an entrance test too, you know! haha! the bottomline is, we don't play cards with our future, we make our own moves to mold it just the way we want it. wow! i'm thinking seriously for once! haha! maybe i'm getting over my childish way of thinking....haha!
maffei · Wed May 10, 2006 @ 02:21pm · 0 Comments |
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we're gonna sing a duet for a special number tomorrow in church,,, the instrumental at the end is a bit long,,,about a minute, so kuya richard said i could give a testimony or something at that part,,, so i decided i could give the testimony of how i started singing,,, my friends from ilocos don't even know i sing,,,actually, my passion for singing (or anything "music" wink just started fromt he praise and worship team at school... i started attending cell group and prayer meetings and some friends of mine wanted to join the auditions for the praise team (at the end of the year) when we were in 1st year high.... one friend was accepted because she has leadership skills though not that good at singing, the other was accepted for song leading... and me? sad to say but they accepted me just because the other two were my close friends... i joined every practice as they did and i was always for backup; i didn't feel insecure,no, not even a bit. it's because i know that God has a purpose and if He didn't like me to be there in the first place, i really wouldn't be accepted.
the trouble came when we were incoming 3rd yr students,,,i figured that the truth behind my being a backup "forever" is that i come from a Catholic and raised as a Catholic and don't even belong to a local Christian Church. how'd i figure that out? the application for "auditions" (we all had to go through the auditions once more because mam kathy took sir balce's place as coordinator) said that a song leader must be: a Christian and belong to a local Christian Church. at that time i wasn't part of one. it saddened me because as mam kathy said, every backup's goal is to song lead.
at third year i enrolled for voice training (mam kathy is the coach). sadly, i quit p&w because of my tight sched and that sir empleo insisted that "no man can serve 2 masters"... anyway, it was ok because i was already a part of the praise team of CAFE, the church that i now go to. as usual, i'm in for backup... (sir arnold told me to be in the backups because he knew i was singing, he was the one in charge of the auditions for the glee club but i forgot to go to the second auditions...lol). when i first sang as backup, pastor already was asking me to have a special number because it was always jc who sings,,,tried that once but due to some technicalities, i didn;t like it that much,,,haha...(that's another story)... then things a bit "changed" when kuya richard (our chess coach) entered CAFE and began song leading... he insisted that i would be the one replacing him 3 months from now (he's going abroad)! whoa! me? song lead in front of the congregation? sir! i thought you had logical thinking!! xp well, i now think he's serious about it, he gives me parts in the p&w bit by bit coz he knows i wouldn't agree if he still insists i song lead right now.
now, back to what's happening right now,,,tomorrow we'll sing a special number,,that's about it...i'm gonna enroll for voice lessons for the third time as i really want to sing and hopefully join a singing contest to help in our finances (pinoy pop offers 1million pesos, house and lot, a car, and a lot of other priviledges)...haha! as if,,,but we'll see,,, ate arla actually won "shine for Jesus", so why not me?...lol "LET'S FOLLOW GOD'S WILL!!!"
maffei · Sat May 06, 2006 @ 01:51pm · 0 Comments |
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i have this friend (churchmate, schoolmate, classmate...) who was so upset today,,,he accidentall broke his (most beloved) guitar! waahhh!! crying he ws in a very good mood,making jokes and messes up his playing the guitar while i sing and then, just after the practice, his guitar accidentally fell,,,he thought it was still ok and checked for some bruises but then it turned out that what it had was a crach! as in putol ung sa pihitan! whahahaha! it was a good this he was in a good mood,,,u don't wanna see him when he's like that...unpredictable siya pag badtrip! ahaha! anyways,,,though he's like that, he happened to still be in is senses,,, mabait p nmn xa saken at kinuha ung organ na bitbit ko! tama ba naman kasing babae ang pagbitbitin nun! bigat nun,a! hehe,,,bsta un n un,,,ge,,,bye-bye! muwaaAh! biggrin
maffei · Thu May 04, 2006 @ 03:13pm · 0 Comments |
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i thought i about it,,,,a thousand times! |
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my friend's been messing around again,,,he told me that he liked me (again!),,,but this time he wasn't drunk,,,he was just foolin' around or somethin,,, i really thought it was real but i really didn't like him like,,,u know what i mean,,, but i told him i had feeling for him before,,just to ease it out a bit,,,and i told him i love him,,,as a friend... turned out he was just messing afterall,,, good thing! i didn't want that kind of thing to happen -ever! i know his ex still loves him,,,as in so much! i wanna sing this song for them,,,,if their "love story" was a movie, i'd sing the theme song,,, "if ever you're in my arms again" lol then again, i really thought it was real so i thought about it so hard that i sorta had some bad sleep because of it.... like,,,he told me he had this dream that we were asleep together,,,eww,,,not even in his dreams! i'd kill him the next time he gets that kind of dream! whahahaha! anyway,,,back to singing that song........
"if ever you'r ein my arms again, this time i'll love you much better,,,,,,"
maffei · Thu May 04, 2006 @ 03:02pm · 0 Comments |
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