i just uploaded the photos from the 2nd ashs alumni homecoming this morning (in my friendster account). they're public photos so any ashs person (and non-ashs who are maybe interested) can grab them. the homecoming was ok, though not well-attended. we had fun, i at least had fun with batches '97 and '98. nobody from the batch '95 was there, i wonder why...anyway, every 5 batches were supposed to perform and our group didn't plan anything. geena suggested that maybe we can just sing the pac hymn, which was a great idea. so we sang the pac hymn. the other groups also sang some songs from their time, hehehe...i didn't really know a lot of ashs graduates and i got to know them (at least by their faces) through that gathering. the next homecoming is in 2009 and i am hoping that ashs graduates will get their butts off their seats and attend the party. come on people! you wouldn't have been where you are right now if not for your education in the ashs curriculum so just give credit to that and be grateful by attending such gatherings. it's a fun way to meet not only with your batchmates but with all the others who have become as successful as you are because they were once ashs students.
the holiday season is almost over. officially it ends on january 6, right? christmas and new year's celebrations were ok. however, they were not as festive as the previous years which somehow shows the economic crisis in the country. life is harder, money's value is getting lesser, the prices of goods are continually rising while the salaries of people are stagnant. well, christmas is not really in things that we have but what is in our hearts as we celebrate the birth of jesus. and new year's day may just be a date but it signals a new beginning for everybody. we are all hoping that 2008 turns out to be a better year than 2007.
and...i have been disconnected and haven't been able to be online for more a week because i got my laptop repaired. i didn't have that many large files so i wondered why it was so slow. i thought maybe there was a problem with the memory. well, there was a problem but not with the memory but with the modem which was filled with virus(es), apparently from the internet. now that it's back with me repaired, i am getting paranoid. everytime it slows down (when it's reading), i thought there are viruses again attacking it. i even downloaded another anti-virus program recommended by the brother of my friend who works in a computer shop (thanks jasper). so i've got two anti-virus programs now which work alternately. i just hope they work for me.
...which all led me to thinking...what were the people who made these viruses thinking? apparently to sell their anti-virus programs. but then, why the hell do they want to destroy things and mess with other people's lives by destroying their important files? i mean, is that really what you want? to destroy? because that's what these viruses do. even you don't want to be destroyed.
i just don't get why some people get happy by destroying. come on people. we say that we live in a civilized and modern world but what is civilized and modern about what we do to one another? the internet is supposed to connect people, not disconnect them through these stuff.
i am just really sad that people go through hell to connect with the people they love and some other people are out to disconnect these connections. even in real life. two people fall in love and have a relationship. other people (whether men or women) enter into the picture and disconnect them. it's ok if the people are not yet married. what is really a big, big deal is some other people are just out to destroy some marriages. well, whatever. i am just so pissed off that i was disconnected for a week. now i am bombarded with my students' emails and i am running out of time to get into them. oh god, help me.
so enough about my angsts. i just want to vent out. i'll be ok after this, i hope.
i could have just written this post with the tv series addict blog, but i chose not to because i just want one separate blog as a tribute to these two persons. i've just proven that people who have met through the internet or phone and haven't met even once in person can be friends, really good friends. some time ago, i joined this investigative/guessing thingy sponsored by the philippine daily inquirer on the net. they had this situation where members guess what's going to happen next or who is the person involved and kinda solve it. they even had chatrooms for members. from this room, i met two persons, nath who is from davao and ??? (god, i can't remember his name. i remember he works at the ateneo de manila university). we exchanged cellphone numbers in the chatroom and there started our friendship. i lost communication with the one whose name i can't remember but nath and i never lost communication, either through text messages or friendster messages. there is ...
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