Why can't I strategically PASS my tests??  Let me figure it out using the scientific approach hehe...

Witness ang aking nanay at tatay sa mga ka-SLACKERAN o katamaran na ginagawa ko sa bahay.  Pero kahit na may pagka-tamad ako, based sa aking "saying" sa header ng blog ko, it's not what I must do now, it's what I'll do next.  So let me expound that one hehe.  Oo, lahat ng tao may angking katamaran, un nga lang ang mga taong katulad ko ay nasobrahan.  NGUNIT, hindi naman ako ung klase ng tao na hindi na talaga mag-aaral para sa test kinabukasan, pero mahirap pa rin kasi sa maraming nasayang na oras, hindi na naging SUFFICIENT ang kaalaman(wow, poet haha). *kagat ng cheap na hamburger*  Guys, siguro naman marami nang nakapagsabi sa inyo na BE CONFIDENT *huy Aldred ng PBB magbasa ka hehe*  Pero bilang lamang ang makakasagot kung saan nga bang palengke nabibili 'yang confidence na 'yan at nakakalungkot isipin na wala pa atang tao dito sa mundo ang kayang ipamukha sa 'yo(minsan lang) na ang angking CONFIDENCE(ano ba tagalog nito?) ay galing sa mabangis na PREPARATION(pati ito?).  At the first place eherrrmmm, bakit pa ako nagsusulat tungkol sa CONFIDENCE at ano nga ba ang kaugnayan nito sa pagiging BAGSAK ko sa aking mga tests sa Accounting??  GAGIII, TANG 'NA, BABAGSAK NA NAMAN YATA AKO SIYETE.  Buong buhay na ata akong magaaral wahaha sa sobrang delay.  'Yan na ang tanging kasagutan *kagat ng ikalawang cheap na hamburger sabay inom ng juice*  Well, seriously guys, madalas akong hindi makasagot sa exam kasi nga hindi ako confident at bakit nga ba?  Kasi nga kulang ako sa preparation.  Dahil sa katamaran ko, hindi sapat ang buong gabi para aralin ang prelims na kukunin kinabukasan ng umaga.  Dahil dito, tentatively 58.5 ang prelim grade ko sa MS(average na ng mga quizzes un at prelim exam, wala pang transmutation) eh ung mga kaklase ko, ewan ko ba kung paano magaral ang mga 'yun, mga halimaw, nakakapasa sila, e sabi naman nila tamad din sila.  At ewan ko ba kung bakit mas hirap ako sa FS, samantalang maraming nakapagsabi sa 'kin na mas madali pa ang FS.  Kumusta naman un!  Bakit ba, ano bang ginagawa ko sa buhay at nagiging bungi-bungi ang practice ko sa pag-solve ng mga Accounting probems?? Tungkol sa WWE and PBB ba??

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Fuck that MS quiz about Capital Budgeting.  I'll pedigree its ass hehe.

I'm creeping for a passing grade but everytime I come close to it, it would simply fly away from me in its unreachable state.  I don't know, that test about Capital Budgeting CAN be so easy but it was deliberately bombarded with TRICKS and TRAPS and that's a pretty different story.  Plus the fact that it was "straight problems" and once you get a wrong answer from the first item, you'll surely get the next items also WRONG.  In short, they had an interlocking effect and with many traps that I got to realize only after I had passed the test, it seems that the result will be so BAD, a massacre I must say.  I'm creeping for a passing grade but everytime I come close to it, my MS instructor, I don't know, can't just let that happen as if I were trying to steal it from her hehe.  She's a good instructor, in fact, I've appreciated Accounting SO well everytime she discusses.  I don't, of course, doubt her very intention of imparting her sound knowledge to her students.  She teaches a BASIC style for us to have a clear overview of the seemingly new topics in MS, I don't have problems with that because my first MS deals with a brand-new perspective(compared to FS) and so she has been teaching us effectively but her frequent mood swings aside hehe.  But the only hitch is she's like enforcing a "martial rule" upon us to the extent that we can't bear it.  That interlocking problems plus tricks in her test is collectively the SUREst way to easily annihilate all of us.  My tentative prelim grade(untransmuted, I don't know if she'll still transmute some tests) is flat 60 in MS, when compared to the latest sem, I believe, that raw prelim grade is conservatively average ONLY without the latest difficult test.  I was pretty confident before the test about Capital Budgeting so I was humbly confident that I CAN face even the most challenging problems squarely.  BUT, based from experience, sometimes one's mind is clouded by so much pressure, be it time or just anything, and that makes the mind go IDLE.  Now, I'm nearing the last week of summer class and perhaps ready to face whatever consequence that would come my way.  I'll do the best that I can, but don't blame me for my chronic procrastination, this has been HERE with me all times hehe.  I wouldn't be me, without it hehe...

I don't know but I've thought that the power of GRACE is somehow working for me.  There has been an unknown universal reason running wild for everything, right?  And I believe that reason has been somehow working for me since the time that same reason let me go through this ordeal after failing a significant subject.  I don't exaggerate the word "ordeal" here because many of my batchmates can just agree that Accounting is a very boring yet relatively EASY subject(especially in real practice) compared to the hard-core technical courses like Computer Science or Engineering but studying in UST with Velayo's backbone infused to it, it's different, things will not be easy EVER and even the most intelligent in our batch or even in our world has no choice but to work damn hard just to get such good grades.  I don't know what picture lies ahead me but I'm simply afraid of the still unknown fact of no matter how hard I try I can't escape my destiny to simply fail afterwards and maybe God's reason for me to bear a much LIGHTER pain than the pain I'll perhaps get through when He let me continue.  To be honest, I don't like Accounting and maybe the big man upstairs has known that very well but why did He let me pass the qualifying exams anyways, why did He let those who had been debarred pass it at the first place if they will not just be "able" to still pursue??  That's the unknown reason.  I don't know the exact answer, who knows, but one thing's for sure, no matter how much I hate my course, I'm NO superior than Him to let go of His grace.

Yes, my MS instructor has the power to easily annihilate all of us by just giving absurdly difficult tests in a single mighty blow, it's up to me if I'll get through with it, but it's still up to Him if he'd let me.  If I have only a prayer left, that would be it...

In the middle of answering our MS exam(about theoretical FS analysis), my left eyelid suddenly twitched accompanied by transient blurriness. I freaked out, who will not hehe? In the middle of the test, come on bre, my focus flew away! Of course, I immediately associated that "twitching" thing to my consistently "insufficent" sleeps. You can't blame me for sleeping so LATE and rising up so EARLY because there's no way to delay my studies further and complacently sleep considering this "expected" short span of time of summer classes. Especially this one, the discussion about Single-Entry System in FS didn't even last LONGER as we expected and just YESTERDAY, we took the last quiz about the three last topics in FS which I believe that even if we studied the whole evening before the morning test, it was still too damn hasty to "master" those topics. And so as expected, congratulations, I've just screwed up. This monday, it's my "FINAL COUNTDOWN" thing for all of us and I can't confidently say at this very point in time that I'll be able to pass it because as the title of this entry says, an eye twitch suddenly entered the whole scene, and damn at this very point in time, IT'S STILL TWITCHING, and it's f*cking annoying and enough to let me down once again. I sincerely pray to the good Lord just out there to give me a chance to let me pass by deffering this "twitching" thing after the Finals and even beyond hehe.

So as always, Internet is a useful tool to search what mainly causes this "twitching" thing if you're wise enough not to go to your friendly ophthalmologist at this early point in time. So I've googled "eye twitch" in the Net and quickly found the exact one. And the result came out:

Ooops! Wrong search! It's a diiferent twitch and a seizure dance for his case.

Hehe. Seriously this result came out. Well, I was hoping that the cure would simply be one good SLEEP for it would only seem "tired eyes" and they need a good rest like a hibernating bear does hehe. But, I've just slept for more than 8 hours for God sake but still after I had risen up, my left eyelid again started to twitch. I freaked out, who will not hehe? Well, guys if you've already opened the link I've just given you, then you'll see that it would normally be gone for a week or else call the doctor very quick, but hell what!?! But I hope that's the MAXIMUM. I'm a caffeine-addict, it's a popular way to let me stay up late(but not 'til dawn hehe) for me to have a sufficient study. And, caffeine, as I've found out from the search, is actually one thing that aggravates the whole "twitching" thing. PLUS, I used to take up "energy" drinks before taking the test, and if you're curious enough to read the ingredients of one energy drink, an amount of caffeine contributes to its effectiveness. So if you're experiencing this whole "twitching" thing like my Mama does hehe, then I suggest, don't drink much caffeine but lots of water, sleep sufficiently to ultimately avoid caffeine, and don't waste time drooling in the Net for hours unproductively straining the eyes like what I'm doing now hehehe. Dr. Rc, thus, signing off haha

--Roy of Tabulas, I think the entry time screwed up at this point.  This actually was posted at about 11 am, time has already been offset for years... 

Not the clothes hehe

After almost a year, finally I'm writing this very entry using my old yet reliable PC.  Thank God, it resurrected from the harshness of the cobwebs.  I don't care if this PC is running in turtle's pace, what I do care is my old files in here FOR basically everything from short movie clips to interesting reads and of course how can I forget my not-so-huge database of MP3s I've been illegally downloading since 2003 that I may aptly call RC's Illegals .  So you might be asking how can I post all my previous entries without a PC, well, I've been using my father's laptop for that matter...

My summer class is finally OVER.  Since that time, I've been sleeping more than 8 hours and no doubt my almost sleepless nights during my summer class have been given some kind of a justice.  Well, how was my recently-concluded summer class? NOT WELL hehe but I passed.  Because my grades are not that GOOD but no matter what I'm still very thankful to the good Lord just out there for answering my prayers and letting me pass my 2 subjects and one good thing is that I didn't slightly pass both of them because I got no 3s.  Oh well, thanks for that.  But it was still too damn hasty.  I'm not into studying almost everyday as if I were trying to alarmingly avoid the rush hour's train jam.  Here I come again for another take off *sighs* I'm already in my 4th year in College, supposedly my last year in this whole Accounting ordeal and up to this point, I can't believe how time can fly so fast.  Good thing all about it is that it helps me think MATURELY because most of the time I'm quite IMMATURE, imagine, watching wrestling shows and always being fooled around by the wrestlers haha.

Well, my friends and I toured the new AMV-College of Accountancy building which is expected to be fully operational roughly and hopefully by second week of June.  Well, the classrooms were mostly furnished, I think, the only important thing that was still missing during our brief tour was the "air-con" for every classroom, but one big room there, I think it was the auditorium, has already an aircon set-up.  We were so excited and delighted while touring the vicinity with an ongoing construction still taking place just like Spongebob and Patrick have always been especially when their eyes largely sparkle.  Our sheer anticipation was almost like a hungry Somalian waiting for some foods to be dropped by the UN relief operations from a helicopter.  Ok, my metaphoring bullets have just come short...

Another take off story I would be glad to share is about SM Mall of Asia that we toured after getting our clearance report 2 days ago.  Ok here comes another PATRIOTIC entry hehe.  When I first saw the SM Mall of Asia, yes, we were so much amazed about the fact of how HUGE it really is.  When I read a business magazine just last night bought by Pops which covers this large investment, it says there that it was a startling 7-Billion-peso project, if my memory's right.  Well, I've just finished my Management Accounting I and talking about this large investment of putting up a mall which has been said to be the largest in Asia-Pacific(I researched, this is just next to China's biggest), it falls under the lesson CAPITAL BUDGETING(I flunked this quiz hehe).  That lesson is the hardest, for me, in MS and I deeply wonder about its payback hmmm.  But come on, this difficulty is simply NOTHING when compared to Henry Sy's awesome guts on risking almost his entire fortune by putting up this 7-Billion-peso project amidst our very UNSTABLE economy.  His braveness is for me the boldest OPTIMISTIC move I've ever known so far.  I like his attitude towards our country especially when he says that it wouldn't take long for this country to finally take off.

Well, for this bold risk he took, he definitely can serve the nation so well.  What a staggering employment rate it might create.  I definitely agree on what he said in the interview when he was asked this question of why did he decide to take such risk.  He answered that with sheer optimism that the Philippines has economically a "great potential" considering the fact that we are strategically located, we are known for being hospitable, we speak English so good, we entertain, our women are beautiful(I added this one haha), and therefore there would be no valid excuse for us NOT to finally take off for we have these all.  But I think the problem is just like a dilemma that a person usually faces and that is we don't even try to efficiently optimize our potentials, they might be hidden but damn they're still there.  So Philippines take off, Henry Sy, you're simply the MAN!!!