Conversations
Virtu et Fortuna
Oct 5th
I and Noemi wanted to approach a professor and ask him/her to change a specific policy for a project.
aLps: Can you assert your virtu to Sir/Ma’am ****?
Noemi: No, I can’t assert mine. Can you?
aLps: I can’t! Let’s just adhere to the original policy then.
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Days later, the professor changed some provisions of the policies satisfying our original proposition for revision.
Noemi: Alps! He/She changed the policy! And it is what we wanted!
aLps: Yeah! This, is called fortuna. :D
Plurkin’ Goodness
Sep 19th
My Psycholinguistics professor told us something about grades:
Grades tell your performance, not your ability (Yu, 2008).
Hear, hear I say. I’m not getting gaga over grades but as much as possible..
I strive so that my ability would reflect my performance (Aguado, 2008).
But (Yeah, I’m a bench-sitter!) as much as I want to have good grades, I am not as conscious as other people. Haha. I like doing many non-academic, leisurely, unproductive and time-wasting endeavors like watching Grey’s Anatomy, playing with my Labrador for at least an hour, staring at the boob-tube, stalking her and other things that prevent me to do homeworks. I told myself once that I am a person who is so mature that I have the longest attention-span for my age. But hey, I’m freakin’ wrong. I wonder if people with short-attention span know that they have such! Since they can’t think and reflect about it since they have, err, short-attention span. Haha. Anyway, having such condition really sucks, I can’t concentrate on a single activitiy! No, I’m not multitasking, I’m simply not doing my tasks!!
Self-distraction is self-destruction (Aguado, 2008).
Best of Both Worlds
Sep 6th
Jo-ann: People often wish for the so-called “best of both worlds” thinking that the possession of such will make them happy. Or in some cases, happier. But once you get the best of both worlds that you’re pinning for, do you really become happy?
aLps: No. Because together with the best things are the worst things of both worlds. ∞
Perfectionist
Aug 28th
aLps: Why do perfectionists exist in an imperfect world?
Mita: Because they can’t be perfectionists in a perfect world.
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Reality Check
Aug 20th
Vianne: I have read it* already. BITTER. Haha. And i saw a lot of guys agreeing with you. Haha, natatawa na lang ako. You’re blaming Edward because you guys hated the ideal guy that edward is. Because.. I should not continue.. Too bad words.. Peace!
aLps: I’m not striving to be ideal, to be perfect, and I am happy I am not Edward Cullen. Girls would be girls. And hard it may seem to be, boys let them be.
So let the boys be themselves.
I Love You
Jul 19th
Rish: Alps, do you say “I love you” to your guy best friend?
aLps: What?! No!
Rish: JM’s* guy best friend says “I love you” to him.
aLps: Aww, I think guy-friends take that more of a joke rather than a serious one. It may be half meant but it is still packaged to be funny.
Rish: No, he tells that in a serious tone. Like in comments in Friendster or in his text messages to JM*.
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aLps: Where’s my cellphone? :O ∞
*JM is Rish’s boyfriend.
