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30Dec/0912

The Coming of the New Decade

A new decade is coming. Another ten years of happiness, of sadness, of love, of failure, of success--of life. What will happen ten years from now? We don't know. No one knows. What we all know is that we are entering a new phase of our life. Will this decade be as good as the last? Will this decade be as bad as the last? The past determines our future. As we are nearing that new decade, i will try to re-collect my year, my 2009. What happened the whole year? What are the most winning moments? The fail ones? I tried to recollect the five most Epic Win and Epic Fail moments of my life--this year.

My Shot (UST Paskuhan 2009)

2009 Epic Fail

NO FUN RUN

Revisit it.

I'm already on my second year now but I still have to attend that run. It stays on my mind. I don't want this thing to stop me from graduating. I feel bad whenever I remember this thing. I don't want this thing to stay on my mind forever. This redefined my future. I have to take another PE 1 FPF class again in the future. And that's Epic Fail!

MATH ELEVEN

I hate Mathematics. I hate Math Eleven more. I took a removals exam for a 4.00 grade in this course twice. I was able to pass it. But I was not able to erase that mark in my transcript. It will stay their forever. A memory. A remembrance. A mark. It will always tell me that I'm never that good. Damn. One of my downs last semester.

SECOND SEMESTER SCHEDULE

My schedule this semester is really epic. I got a major different schedule compared to my friends this semester. I don't have friends to accompany me. You know how it feels, right? No one to walk with, to talk with. Haha. I'm getting so emo here. I eat lunch alone. I walk in the mall alone. I'm not that type of person. I always want someone to be with me. I'm talkative. You can't talk unless you're with somebody, right? CRS, you're an epic fail. You should know that by now. The good thing is, I get home early.

CELLPHONE

If you haven't heard yet, I lost my phone recently. I left it in the Jeep. That was my first ever postpaid phone. I miss it. You don't have to buy load, I enjoy unlimited internet surfing and I can call anyone. There's something different when you're on postpaid than on prepaid. But my old cellphone is still awesome.

PLANNER

Revisit it.

I failed. I was not able to sustain my eagerness to write in my planner until the end of this year. I stopped. Because I'm lazy like that.

YOU

No questions. You know who you are. :)

Dorky Cleve (UP Diliman Lantern Parade 2009)

2009 Epic Win

FIRST IN FIVE YEARS

Revisit it.

After five years, to be precise, after elementary years, I've achieved something academic-related again. I was looking for this when I was still in High School. But I failed. I graduated with nothing at all. Just a plain-your average-type-of-student type. This is an academic achievement. Don't tell me I'm over-reacting. One of the ups this year! A College Scholar, an academic achievement at last.

FBCP

Revisit it.

Freshman Block Coordination Program. I'm so proud that I got in here in this program. I'm so proud of my FBCP family. I miss them. Everything that you need is already here. The laughs, the love, the friendship, the sadness, the commitment, the failure. Everything. A family.

BASIC MASS INTEGRATION

I joined a BMI activity for our Political Science 14 class. We went to Bulacan and stayed for two days and a night in an upland farming village there. We live with the people there. It's so nice to be with them. Their simplicity will awe you. Happiness is really that simple. This activity changed me. Changed my life. I joined Anakbayan because of this. Proud to be! Lumalakas, Lumalawak, Lumalaban!

CLEVEARGUELLES dotcom

Revisit it.

I'm giving this part of my life two points for epic win moments. Yes, two points. I'm so happy that someone did offered me mainstream blogging. Thanks Kuya JC, Kuya Tonyo and Kuya Alps.

Don't overdo your 2010 guys. I know this post is not that good. I will try to do another year-ender. Definitely.

Luck will be on us! Definitely.

Welcome 2010!

Leave me some love. Tell me you pass by!

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26Dec/0914

Of Ang Panday and MMFF

I usually watch one entry film for the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) every year with my elementary friends. We know that the entry films are a bit crappy and most of the films are just there for the money. But we still watch every year because it serves as our annual gathering. We usually watch movies whenever we go out and when it's December, you have no choice but to watch an MMFF film. Mind you, we go out slash meet only once a year.

35th Metro Manila Film Festival

Ang Panday/ The Blacksmith

This year though, my two brothers asked me to join them spend their money and watch Bong Revilla's Ang Panday. It is a remake of Fernando Poe Jr.'s film if I'm not mistaken. And the story is written by the controversial Carlo J. Caparas (CC). My mother and my sister decided to join us too. It became a family thing.

We went to Robinson's Manila Movie house and waited for the show. Cinema 4, the one in Pedro Gil wing is a piece of trash. Very dirty. Sleeping operator. The volume is being adjusted for like twenty times. It's a bit distracting and irritating. And there were no ushers! Robinson's is usually not this bad when it comes to entertainment.

Plot

The movie was very plain. Do I really have to mention that the plot is VERY predictable? There were no hidden messages or anything. VERY plain. Dapat paglabas ko ng sinehan, pag-iisipan ko ang mga pangyayari, mag-iisip ako, may intellectual exercise. There should be a discourse worthy or a conversational piece for a movie to be considered as a movie. What? But there aren't any. Lucky for them that I was trying to fit social/ economic/ political/ historical stuff in the movie but I failed. No hope.

Characters

The characterization too is very plain and shallow. Characters failed to leave an impression to the viewers. There is a failure in the part of the writers and that of the directors too to develop the characters, to humanize them and give them life. Introducing characters is not a matter of who, what, when, or where. It's a matter of why. They also failed to connect to the viewers. There were few attempts to connect but all these failed. I could have been a better story writer. Maybe it's not the movie team's fault, maybe it's CC's fault.

Emelita (Rhian Ramos) and Marcos (Geoff Eigenmann) could have done something major. They should have played as a REAL side-kick for the

Panday/Flavio (Bong Revilla). Could have been exciting because of their semi-Assassin and semi-Archer role. They could have participated in the development of the story and contributed to the excitement in the fighting scenes. Rhian Ramos and Geoff Eigenmann were both sexy though.

Lizardo (Phillip Salvador) disappointed me. I thought he would be a Joker a la Heath Ledger type of evil antagonist. It did not work like that, he looks mentally-ill rather than evil. Role should have been given to someone better.

Effects-slash-Animation

I don't really know the difference between the two so i'll treat them as one and the same. Their special effects is thing that they are most proud of, right? I even heard a remark from a GMA 7 executive commending the movie's special effects. Pang-Hollywood daw, pang-international. What? It's quite crappy, though closer to average than trash. Multiplication effects and landscaping animation failed. The only notable animation there is the flying creature, i think it's a dragon. Yes, his/her name is Bagwis. It's quite real in my eyes, very Eragon and War of the Dragons.

The Festival

I wish MMFF could be changed into a festival of excellence, filipinism and creativity. Not a festival for money, profits and revenues. A festival that would be concerned not with profits but with the content and form of the entry films. Exceptional and highly-relevant films should be encouraged as against to another Ang Panday type of movies. No wonder that the industry is dying.

0.5 out of 5 stars relative to all the movies i watched.

3 out of 5 relative to all the entry films in the festival.

P.S. I can't find a decent source of pictures and profiles of the casts. So, yes, Wikipedia. :P

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30Oct/0910

Of Planners and Plans

Next semester, I have been planning to do many things. I even asked my friend Des Santos to make a deal that one has to follow its to do list religiously. A fine should be given if the list will not be followed. One of the things in this list is to use my planner religiously. I'm liking the word religiously. I actually have two planners for this year. I was able to use them but I got tired that I stopped using them after a good three months. I was disappointed. I want the OC Planner type of person.

UP Planner

I own a planner by the UP Diliman Centennial University Student Council. I bought it for 350 pesos or 400 pesos? I can't remember. I have this mild memory loss when it comes to prices. Its actually good and formal. Not very formal, just executive-ish.

UP Planner

I can't find a picture of a real sample of the planner in the net. I'm too lazy to take pictures of it and upload it on PC. It's just too complicated. I was able to use it as a journal. It served as a diary of some sort for me. It also served as my accounts sheet. I wrote my daily and future expenses there. I also tried to collect all the receipts just to make sure that all is written. But when my expenses got complicated and I can't keep track of my transactions, I stopped using this. Its easy to be lazy.

Blogberry Planner

I also own a planner from the Stradmore. Des Santos convinced me to buy this planner because it's suited to college students. I was convinced even if it meant another unnecessary expense for me. The looks and the features inside are so tempting. I bought the Stradmore's Blogberry University Lifestyle Planner. Its about 300 or 400 pesos. I can't remember.

Blogberry University Lifestyle Planner (Stradmore)

It's distributed by the ever-reliable National Bookstore. I bought the green one because it's my favorite color. I used it as my scheduler and my goal planner. It's useful for students because it's patterned after the academic year. I write my 'goals to achieve' here. After a month, I will do a self-evaluation. Its quite fulfilling. But it requires a lot of work. I'm too lazy to do it every now and then. After two months, I stopped. I realized I can't maintain a journal or a planner. Saaaad. But I will try to change that lifestyle next semester. This has to be a planner semester.

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I have been thinking also if I should work again as a student assistant. This time, I want to work in the Graduate Program Office of the College of Arts and Science or GPAS. I need to buy a new phone. My current phone reboots itself whenever it wants to. It also has this 'sim card registration failed' syndrome. I hate this phone but I can't buy a replacement. I still have a spare phone as part of my postpaid freebie but that phone is like a stone age phone. It hangs whenever I tried to send multiple messages. It sucks. Talking about my postpaid. I'm trying to control myself because my previous bill is 1,700 pesos. I pay my own bills. I can't maintain a plan like that. Anyway, let's all enjoy our semestralbreak!

I plan not to go to the memorial park this coming all soul's/saint's day. I'm not convinced why do I have to visit them.

The Ilustrado

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28Jul/091

PGMA’s Last SONA

Thank you.

Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. Before I begin my report to the nation, please join me first in a moment of prayer for President Aquino.

Senate President Enrile, Speaker Nograles, Senators, Representatives, Vice President de Castro, former President Ramos, Chief Justice Puno, Ambassadors, friends:

The past twelve months have been a year for the history books. Financial meltdown in the West spread throughout the world.

Tens of millions lost their jobs; billions across the globe have been hurt—the poor always harder than the rich. No one was spared.

It has affected us already. But the story of the Philippines in 2008 is that the country weathered a succession of global crises in fuel, in food, then in finance and finally, economy in a global recession, never losing focus and with economic fundamentals intact.

A few days ago, Moody’s upgraded our credit rating, citing the resilience of our economy. The state of our nation is a strong economy. Good news for our people, bad news for our critics.

I did not become President to be popular. To work, to lead, to protect and preserve our country, our people, that is why I became President.

When my father left the Presidency, we were second to Japan. I want our Republic to be ready for the first world in 20 years.

Towards that vision, we made key reforms. Our economic plan centers on putting people first. Higit sa lahat, ang layunin ng ating patakaran ay tulungan ang masisipag na karaniwang Pilipino. New tax revenues were put in place to help pay for better healthcare, more roads, and a strong education system. Housing policies were designed to lift up our poorer citizens so they can live and raise a family with dignity. Ang ating mga puhunan sa agrikultura ay naglalayong kilalanin ang ating mga magsasaka bilang backbone ng ating bansa, at bigyan sila ng mga modernong kagamitan to feed our nation and feed their own family.

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12Jul/092

Ang HANDOG ko.

HANDOG KO ANG PAGBABAGO 2009.

PINAKAMATAAS NA PAGPUPUGAY!

First Year.

Thanks for coming. I really appreciate your effort guys. Specially dun sa mga nag-stay 'till matapos ang program. :) Sana ay successful ang FBCP ng paghaHANDOG sa inyo ng kasiyahan. Congratulations sa Best Block Biochemistry 11 and Biology 01. Biochem parin! Haha. :P Galing ng mga anak ko! :P

Salamat rin sa pagboto sa mga candidates niyo. Don't worry, marami pang kasiyahan ang iHAHANDOG sa inyo ngFreshman Block Coordination Program. Nice one! :P All we need is support from you guys! So paano? Kita-kits next time! Grab the oppurtunity and be there!

Seniors.

Without the seniors, we can't do this. Thanks sa lahat ng pumuntang seniors and tumulong sa amin lalo na sa last-minute preperations and problems. Without the seniors, we'll not be able to do HANDOG. Baka walang chairs! Haha. :P And of course, for doing our requested dance number! Congrats!

Kudos to Ate Jeun, Ate Josea, Kuya Ghalie, Kuya DK, Kuya Arven, Ate Wynne, Ate Kris and Ate Candice. Thanks! :P

Mr and Ms Freshies (or Cheesies?)

Okay. Sorry sa lahat ng pagkukulang at lapses ko. :) Sana nainitindahan niyo. Habang tumatagal, narerealize ko ang naging resulta ng ating mga sigawan at walang humpay na pagsasanay. Haha. Ang galing NATIN! Ang galing NIYO! Congrats! :P Stars na kayo, Handog babies! And syempre, ako ang talent manager! Haha.

Ang effort niyo na pumunta sa mga rehearsals kahit alam niyong sisigawan ko lang kayo dun. Sobrang salamat. Yung pagsali niyo sa HANDOG. Salamat. Yung pagdala niyo ng buong bahay niyo or sige, yung buong closet niyo para sa maayos at magandang HANDOG. Salamat! Kahit mainit ang mga dressing rooms, walang umangal, game lahat. Woo! :)

Nung nag-start ang Insomnia .. ang galing niyo! Dalang-dala niyo ang crowd. Ano bang sabi ko? Haha. I know right! At ang batch niyo ang may pinaka-maraming intermission numbers .. dahil gusto ko. Salamat dahil ginawa niyo ang LAHAT. Ang galing-galing niyo talaga! Not to mention the votes! :P

Sana hindi natin makalimutan ang pinagsamahan natin. :) Conference room, roofdeck at siyempre ang nangyari saOUR. :P NAGTITIWALA KAYO SA FBC kaya NAGTITIWALA AKO SA INYO! :) Ipagpatuloy natin ang pagHAHANDOG ng kasiyahan sa mga freshies! :P Miss ko na kayong lahat! We need to meet and play Egyptian Pokpok. Haha!

I want everybody to be present sa victory party ha? :) Meeting on monday. Practice everyday. SANA. Haha. Thanks GUYS. :P You're now part of the FBC family.

FBCs

Need i say more? Teamwork. Love. :) Sturdy pyramid. And like what i said, kayo na ang BUHAY ko! :) And it will be hard for me to give this position as an FBC to the next batch. Dahil mahal ko ang family na ito. At mahal ko ang maglinkod. Woo! :) BEST FBC EVER! BEST HANDOG EVER! Ano pa ba? STURDY! :P Padayon lang yan. At patuloy natin itong pagbubutihan. Right?

Breach of contract. :P