Eighteen Rues

I have seen the day
that generosity was misunderstood;
that selflessness was romanticized.
I did.

I have also seen the day
when creation became destruction;
when purity became tainted;
when power became impotent;
when piety became incest;
when liberty became bigotry;
when selflessness became selfishness;
when desire became detest;
when bliss became brawling.
you did.

I have finally seen the day
that symbols were obvious-
that opposites attract.
we did.


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[[I actually don't know whether this one is nonsensical or just crappy. i think its both.

this one's supposed to be about irony. It's actually from a personal experience of mine.

eighteen rues. eighteen rules. eighteen lines.
eight teen rues. eight symbolic gifts to eight of my friends on my eighteenth birthday.
eight gifts that were misunderstood.
eight gifts that meant to resonate. to resonate each of the good qualities that i've seen in these eight friends.
eight qualities that ive also grown when i became friends with them.

yet it turned out that the eight good qualities that i saw in them became the same opposite qualities that they returned to me that finally lead to our own separate ways.

we then realized for ourselves that myself and them were polar opposites. yet we coexisted.

a sad story for a friendship that never really was.]]

Heart of Worship

Sometimes, we need to remember so we can never forget.

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When the music fades
all is stripped away
and i simply come
longing just to bring
something that's of worth
that will bless your heart

i bring you more than a song
for a song in itself
is not what you have required
you search much deeper within
through the way things appear
you're looking into my heart

chorus
I'm coming back to the heart of worship
and it's all about you
It's all about you, Jesus
I'm sorry Lord for the thing i've made it
when it's all about you
it's all about you, Jesus

King of endless worth
no one could express
how much you deserve
though i'm weak and poor
all i have is yours
every single breath

chorus

Untitled

You think you have an interesting life. And for the most part, you do. You wake up, you go to your job, you go out in the weekends. You do everything you're supposed to do the way it's supposed to be done. But once in a while, there's a chance to do more, and you take it.

I read. I write. I create. I chat. I think. But most of all, I appreciate. Yes, they all matter to me because i make meaningful experiences out of them. Yet these are the small things in life that many neglect.

Giving up the whole afternoon just to read a Buru Quartet; sharing your personal thoughts and opinions to someone you hardly know; baking macaroons as an expression of gratitude; helping someone to design a guidebook cover and not ask for anything in return just because you are passionate about it.

In this material world that we are living, there are far more things in life that money can't buy. People should start appreciating these small things and make meaning out of it.

My life can't just be interesting, it has to be meaningful.

Step up

Everywhere I look, I am reminded
Forced to drop illusions and face reality
Responsibilities and obligations
Welcome to the real world

Apparently, we're no longer young
That we can no longer depend on anyone
That we must look upon ourselves
to survive; to do what we must

I wish I knew what the plan was
To be able to live and survive
But its time we step up
step up and make our mark

I hope Im not alone
I hope you're all with me
to take on the horizon
and live like men would live

blue and yellow, orange and black, green and white.

March 08, 2006 saw itself as the day where the blue and yellows clashed with the orange and blacks. it was the green and white's student council miting de avance.

As a move by the minority party (the ones in the blue and yellow) to attack and devalue the character of the opposing orange and black presidential candidate (from the majority party), a line of homosexuals affiliated to the blue and yellows stood beside the audience as presidentiable was making his platform speech. One of them even did a floor gymnast routine after the speech was done.

This blogger leaves it to you to discern whether this action was a witty attempt or a futile one to discredit the inevitable victory of their oppenents. For years, the blue and yellows has failed to gain the majority candidacy on the general elections because of their weak specific plans of action, and their primary stigma of being an insubstantial rightist party who focuses more on activities and social events rather than than building itself as a responsible, credible political party that the orange county exudes.

Interestingly, their existence is an anti-thesis of each other, as both of them complementarily represent the university student psyche. The first half is perceived as the free-spirited lasallian, while the latter, is the serious-minded one. However, when it comes to social responsibility/irresponsibility, class consciousness/unconsciousness and sympathy/apathy, lets just say that both of them have their own shares.

Azure/Or, Gules/Sable, however you would like to proudly banner your heraldry, you're all still Argent and Vert. The point isn't really about who's who and who does what, it's about exercising mutual respect. Be as it may that these exhibitions are an indication of a healty and colorul political existence, but there are also plain lines that one simply do not cross, and personal character is the first among these lines. It's a blatant fallacy and you know it. The noble virtue of mutual respect is exercised the whole year round, and not only on public situations.

This blogger assures you that a gesture done on a particular magnitude of an event is possitively correlated to the magnitude of its repercussions as the scandalous nature of this blogger knows better. lol.

Finally, to the remaining green and white students here in this group blog (or whoever else that would be vaguely interested in wasting their time reading this), this blogger strongly urges you to exercise your right to vote and more importantly, to vote wisely.

Hate messages against this blogger's stand are welcomed. But before you do, think of the reason why team B consistenly sweeps the freshmen elections while team A consistently sweeps the general elections. This blogger rests his case.

it's just wrong

i think i can make this gig a regular thing lol.

i was checking my mail the other day when i saw this online ad from englicom, the filipino-chinese organization in de la salle (like celadon in admu. its president stresses that its more proper to describe it as the filipino AND chinese organization and i say its adding crap icing to the dung cake). check it out:



its a photo contest project of the said org. ive been scrutinizing the branding, nature of activities, of this particular organization because even though im not a member (i dont want to join), i feel that i (actually we) are all part of it in the sense that we represent the filipino chinese community. lets take a minute of your time to digest this particular project of theirs.

its actually a project that aims to raise social awareness through a photography contest. well the idea sounded good but the way that they packaged it is simply just wrong.

peppering the advertisement with emotively charged words to describe a marginalized social sector is simply inappropriate, if not arrogant. take a particular look at the second sentence. apalling isnt it? whats even worse (or funnier) is that the mechanics of the contest are actually leading. heheh.

now, wouldnt it be nicer and would make more sense if they instead just made a sustainable long-term socio-civic activity than make this one? a quick fix for social responsibility of the filipino chinese community?

tsk tsk. it's just wrong.

the philippines' first student run journal

check it out. well yung poster pa lang naman ang nakita ko but the idea behind it is nice. a friend of mine in lasalle and i thought this wasnt possible for at least a few years pa. never thought that with enough vision, tenacity, and the finances to back it up, the idea would be tangible here in the phils heheh. siguro years in making din to. kudos! =). http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/29132992/

what was pure 20 years back

the 24th was a very frustrating day for me. frustrating personally, and frustrating for my sentiments towards the filipino psyche.

i deliberately didnt sleep on the night of the 23rd so that i can change my body clock and be able to go to school at around lunch time but all my efforts were in vain. to my surprise, i found out that classes and work was suspended for the day due to the arising "threat" of a coup attempt aimed at the administration. be as it may, the declaration had its warrants. but what caught my ire on the situation was the accompanying civil rallies especially the demonstrations held on the EDSA shrine. it seemed wrong. all wrong. i sadly think that the ideologies that people have been so zealously rallying about in EDSA during the 24th and the 25th, take note, the 20th anniversary of the 1st EDSA revolution are seriously altered from what the shrine meant years back.

admittedly, these personal sentiments are not completely to be taken with complete merit as i wasnt born at that time. who am i to tell them what is right and what is wrong? what they were bickering about was just and not merely a bastardization of what was considered as the filipino pride twenty scores back? but i understand one thing, EDSA is a symbol.

from what i know, the 1st revolution was a revolution against dictatorship. the 2nd revolution was against a corrupt governance. the commonality of these callings ("EDSA 3" isnt considered as such because it was violent and NOT because it was merely instigated by the social sectors who voted for then the incumbent.) is that EDSA is a shining symbol. it symbolizes unity amongst diversity. it symbolizes that common ideal can be achieved through unwaivering unity and a peaceful demonstration of a unified sentiment. that i understood. and about the place itself? merely coincidental. it was conviniently situated in between camp aguinaldo and camp crame.

the congregations during the weekend however wasnt anything near the aforementioned. it simply took the opportunity of the moment. and if only the people took the time to realize and appreciate what the people courageously and selflessly did 20 years ago, i assure you they would be completely ashamed of what they did. yes, they overromanticized and bastardized what was pure then. saddening. it truly is.

if the people want a change from the status quo, doing another EDSA simply isnt the way to do so. if what they are saying is true, that the administration and the incumbent are plunderers (ah, that remains to be proven heheh), if true, the administrations efforts and actions for national equilibrium are recognized. justifiable but immoral.

so, what the people are doing is wrong, but they are doing it for the right reasons; what the admin is doing is right, but they are doing it for the wrong reasons.

in the end, this blogger has complete confidence that the incumbent will finish its remaining presidential years. the admin is just shrewd enough to maintain its hold if dystopia arises.

Para sa Masa

just thought it'd be suitable these days heh

ito ay para sa mga masa
sa lahat ng nawalan ng pag-asa
sa lahat ng ng aming nakasama
sa lahat  ng hirap at pagdurusa
naaalala nito pa ba
binigyan namin kayo ng ligaya
ilang taon na ring lumipas
mga kulay ng mundo ay kumupas
marami na rin ang mga pagbabago
di maiiwasan pagkat tayo ay tao lamang
mapapatawad mo ba ako
kung hindi ko sinunod ang gusto mo
la la la la la la la la. . . . . .
pinilit kong iahon ka
ngunit ayaw mo namang sumama
ito ay para sa mga masa
sa lahat ng binaon ng sistema
sa lahat ng aming nakabarkada
sa lahat ng mahilig sa labsong at drama
sa lahat ng di marunong bumasa
sa lahat ng may problema sa skwela
sa lahat ng fans ni sharon cuneta
sa lahat ng may problema sa pera
sa lahat ng masa
huwag mong hayaang ganito
bigyan ang sarili ng respeto

The Riding

by Thackerson

Long and lost was I
riding towards the sea
out the ridge o'er the trees
The rivulet passes by

And ho, my brothers ride
merry along the way
to which no man hath gone fore
look back no more
look back no more

American McGee's Alice

[if you havent seen of played this game yet, i suggest that you do. it's eye candy. im imagining this adaptation to be similar to those small scale b-rated movies with shoestring budgets and trashy scripts like doom and resident evil. god i hope the movie wont be that bad.]


Sarah Michelle Gellar gets ready to star in "Alice in Wonderland" movie
By Borys Kit and John Gaudiosi
Saturday 25 June 2005.

LOS ANGELES - Sarah Michelle Gellar is attached to star in a feature version of the Electronic Arts video game "American McGee’s Alice," which is itself based on Lewis Carroll’s "Alice in Wonderland" novels.

In the game, Alice has grown up to become a disturbed young woman. After her parents are killed in a fire, Alice returns to Wonderland, a dark and threatening place of looking glasses, mysterious potions, nonsensical tea parties and talking animals, confronting her fears and the wicked Queen of Hearts.

The film, "Alice," is set up at Universal Pictures, where it will be directed by Marcus Nispel, who shot the recent update of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." Gellar’s recent credits include "The Grudge" and the "Scooby Doo" films.

"American McGee’s Alice" became a critically acclaimed hit on the PC when it shipped in December 2000. The game received an 83% aggregate review score on Gamerankings.com, which helped Electronic Arts sell more than 488,000 units of the game and generate more than $11.8 million in revenue, consulting firm NPD Group said. The game was created by American McGee, a lead designer of the "Quake" and "Doom" series.

That same month, Dimension Films optioned the movie rights to "Alice" from Electronic Arts; horror veteran Wes Craven was attached to produce and direct.

deconstructing subliminal messages in rainbow candies [part 1]

advertising is basically branding. branding is about strategic marketing. and strategic marketing bases itself on psychology, whether it focuses on personality psychology, or social psychology, it depends on the product and on the image that it wants to convey.

people do not wonder about m&m's, a popular chocolate staple in our inventory of high calorie diet's message because it is plain and simple. with its colorful pieces it is obviously a marketing strategy that aims to induce hunger and variety on its target market, the children, with its end goal of increased consumption (for a related reasearch, take a look at my paper about the effect of the variety on food preference). add the familiar ernie and bert colored peanut and plain flavored m&m for brand retainability purposes, and finally, its catchphrase "melts in your mouth, not in your hand" catchphrase, and you got one effective product branding.

another similar existing product is NIPS. innocently packaged as an alternative to the popular m&m's, one could not help but think about its impact (whether supraliminal or subliminal) on children's cognition, especially that this product has no mascot for visual retainability other than its colorful candies (an obvious rip-off to the mainstream m&m's), and it only has literary advertisments seen in aged commercials to back it up.

this research aims to deconstruct the branding of the said product, to analyze its social implications, specifically to the children, and finally, fill the void of knowledge in the field of developmental psychology, specifically on the effects of the branding of food to the childen's cognitive processes later in life.

due to time, resource, and motivational constraints, this research is limited only to basic literary analysis. a review of related literature, inline citations, are not possible. however, it is fortunate that this author was able to obtain a piece of literary advertisment of the said product, and careful dissection of its meaning is possible.

using jaques derrida's deconstructivism as an analytical tool for our one and only piece of hard data thus enables us to examine the manifest, latent, social (and political), and finally devonstructive levels of meaning of the said "jingle".

Wanna see what happens in a bag of nips
What goes on before it touch my lips
They make a rainbow, chocolate nips
A choco rainbow, chocolate nips
And then they color all the flowers
And became a tree....

presented before you is the advertisement jingle of NIPS. its manifest content speaks for itself.

when it comes to its latent content however, different interpretations arise. examining its first line, one cannot help but think on the meaning of bag of nips. what is nips really? what other interpretations can we have for it being in a bag?

recall what when we were in our prepubescent years, this was the time when our pituitary glands begin to send signals to our gonads to produce hormones to initiate the growth of our primary and secondary sexual characteristics. among those are the growth of beards, the advent of menarche, and particularly, the growth of the breasts. before the full growth of the female breasts, (for a related research on breasts, see my paper about the effect of breast size on male and female teenager interaction) it beggins with a budding or puffing of the female nipple. this "puff" is fondly teased girl cohorts (take note, GIRL cohorts only. why are male not included you say, pre-teen boys are simply not interested in budding nipples, barely poking out through girl's trainer sandos. again, read my research about the breast size and social interactions) as "grapes". one can only assume that it is because of its resemblance. the author has no way of determining the factuality of the said monicker. another popular monicker that girl cohorts dub for this budding protuberance is "nips", a shortened name for nipple, because it connotes the meaning "little nipple".

a bag on the other hand is simply a receptacle. but putting it in its literary context, it is possible that the bag is used as a receptacle for the nips, in its latent meaning, an object that holds the young woman's budding nipple. what else could it be other than a trainer bra or a sando bra? this solves the latent meaning of the first line of this jingle unfit to be heard and comprehended by the children's innocent psyche.

could it be possible that this rainbow chocolate alternative brands itself as a young woman's budding nipple? it could just might possibly be. latent content analysis of the succeeding lines allows us to put more rationalization.

[end of part 1]

the one about vanilla sky

My dreams are a cruel joke.
They taunt me.
Even in my dreams I'm an idiot... who knows he's about to wake up to reality.

If I could only avoid sleep.
But I can't.
I try to tell myself what to dream.
I try to dream that I am flying.
Something free.

It never works...

the one about the show "friends"

there was a time that i loathed watching the show friends. in my delusional world, i had convinced myself that friends wasnt funny, had low-brow corny humor, and was not different from the other endless sitcoms that existed.

what's even weirder was that ive done the same for the show x-files..

but weirdest thing was that i convinced all of those to myself just to piss the hell out of mariane during my sixth grade elementary (still remember wil? heheh. oh yeah, sorry jim).

not only do i regret that now, realizing that i have deprived myself of enjoying the feel good show and the full appreciation of the concept of friends, but i just wanna say that i love you guys. this is what a friends marathon can do to you heheh.

this still however doesnt change the fact that i'd still wanna piss the heck out of mariane, just for the heck of it. i just can't help it. heheh =) (still remember wil? heheh. oh yeah sorry again jim).

the one about the casino

jeco, jim and i went to casino filipino last night to play some poker. it was my first time to go to a casino and to play a real big stakes money game. not the usual small buy-ins. this one's real big.

it was a 20/40 no limit table, no antes, with a 1000-5000 peso limit buy-in. jeco and i had a 3000 peso buy-in, while jim had 4000. man. just the thought of that, playing with that much of your own money would choke you. and admittedly, it scared the heck out of me at first.

we waited a little for the other people to sit-in and to play with us. not that i want to make them look sleazy or anything because theyre really not and they actually nice people, but the people playing there are real stereotype gamblers. old chinese geezers, old foreingers that look like dirty old men, mistresses, GI's, and drivers of rich dignitaries. we waited till the table was about 6-7 people sitting in, enough to make a short-handed game and we started.

jeco and jim advised me to play tightly when you go against these kind of people in these kind of situations. money was nothing to them. in some hands, they'd easily bet about 1-3k of their stack. yaiks.

so following their advice, i played ultra tight, playing mostly with premium hands, mixing up with a few marginal hands so that they would think that im a passive tight type of player.

i had my first real hand early on, cowboys to be exact and raised 300. everybody else folded except for one guy who called. in the turn, he pushed me with huge bet that'll take a huge chunk of my stack if i called and losed and i folded because i was worrying about him making a full house as there was a pair in the board. first bad move of the night.

there were also a number of bad moves that i made that made me lose all my stack and had to re-buy another 2000 to get back in the game. at one time jeco and i (stupidly enough) went heads up. i dunno if it was stupidity or a show of sexual tension or sumthin but we went heads up, instead of checking the board all of the way till the river. anywho my pocket snowmen got beaten by a sneakier full that made itself in the river. after that i was short stacked.

made my final stand late in the evening and i decided to go all in with a big hand. at small blinds i caught another pair of cowboys and decided to go all in. two other people called. at the flop, an ace came and the other guy made a huge bet that forced the third player to fold so it was heads up between us. turns out that my guess was right, no way would he call my all in if he had an ace. i was dreading that. got badly beaten by an AK. at least it bought me some time to reassess myself (i choked terribly) and get a snack at the carrels.

after my much need break i got back into the game and rebuyed with a 2000 stack to stay in the game. 2000 isnt much, you'll easilly get pushed around. a good stack to play with is about 4000-5000. played tight again until i pushed all in to double up. we left at around 1:30 in the morning after i played my last hand, hooks, that took another 400 or so from the guy to my right.

in the end i ended up with 4k+ (thats actually quite good if you consider me being a terrible poker player), while jim was down with about a thousand and jeco, up by more than three thousand, just enough to repay the money both of them lent to me, and learned a few lessons:

1. bring a good amount of money when you wanna play poker in the casino.
2. have a bankroll just for playing. dont use your own money.
3. never, and i mean NEVER think that it's real money that you're playing. it'll make you choke instantly and i guarantee that you'll lose.
4. play tight in these situations. i initially played tight, waiting for premium hands and tried position playing and realized it would goddamn matter to them. they're jackals and they wouldnt matter to them if you had rags or rockets to raise with. they would've called the same just to see the flop. outplaying them? its pretty much useless. it's better to fish for a card and limping in.
5. just check the cards till the end like what you do in online tables if you're going heads-up with a friend. hear that jeco? heheh.
6. its kinda fun and i want to try it again some time if i get to have a bankroll that can back me up. commissioned works anyone?

i'm thinking about practising some more (actually a lot more. haven't fully regained my poker esteem since my long absence from playing at online tables) and try tournament style next time. the playing there is entirely different and hopefully filipinos here wont act like smart alecs and blurt out poker stuff that they'd only heard about in the WPT. feeling. goddamnit that really fucking annoys me.

I Love This...

I sing of little dreams
Of lovers, islands, secrets and poetry
Stumming tales from the heart
you Know they resonate in you and me

Now I'll take the stage
But I'll always be
Among you where I belong
To rock your hearts out

I'm supernaturally hypnotized
I'm singing our song like I've never been so high

Paparapapa love ko to
Paparapapa love ko to

I hear the beat from above
It guides my heart and fills the groove of my soul
No matter where it takes me
On the same ground is where we will always be

Now I'll take the stage
But I'll always be
Among you where i belong
To rock your hearts out

I'm supernaturally hypnotized
I'm singing our song like i've never been so high

Paparapapa love ko to
Paparapapa love ko to

As I take you to my dreams
Soring high above among the stars
Will it keep my feet safe and warm on the ground?

Now I'll take the stage
But I'll always be
Among you where i belong
To rock your hearts out

I'm supernaturally hypnotized
I'm singing our song like i've never been so high

Paparapapa love ko to
Paparapapa love ko to

Casino experience

Jeco and I went to Casino Filipino awhile ago and it was a lot of fun.

The game was no limit hold'em at 20-40.
Sadly, we didn't bring enough money and we could only buy in for 1,500.
That meant we only had under 40 bets to play with.
And since pots would run to 2000 per hand, my plan was pretty much to find a hand and move in hoping to double up.
I folded some hands I wish I could have played because the raises were huge pre-flop so I had to much QJ and QT.
At the BB, I checked the blind with K2 of spades. There were 7 people to the flop.
Flop was 568 with two spades. I checked. Someone bet out 200 and I called along with 4 others.
Turn was the Q of spades giving me the king high spade flush. I checked. Someone bet out 500 and everyone called. I had two choices. Raise all-in or call the bet.
But because I didn't have enough to call a river bet anyway, I moved all in with my last 700 hoping to scare away two pairs in case the board paired.
Unfortunately, I got called by the nut flush. And that was it for me.

It was a fun experience because I've never played on a casino before. I was glad to see that the other players weren't good. One lady on my table, in fact, called a hand to the river with the board showing AK773. The lady had QJ. They weren't all like that, but still.

What made it hard for me playing on a casino was that the atmosphere is a little different. It's weird cause I'm used to higher limits so the money didn't really scare me, but it was just that the feel of it is different. I'm used to home games and I'm comfortable reading a book and I know at least one other person on the table. At the casino, Jeco was at anotber table so it was kind of strange.

Anyway, I'm coming back on Tuesday with the max buy-in. 40 bets is not enough to play with so I didn't get a chance to make some plays. It doesn't look like a hard game to crush so I'm looking to do just that. If y'all want to join us, let me know.

Oh and in case you're wondering how much would be good to buy-in at a 20-40, I'd say 2000 at the very least. That's 50 bets and will allow you to play with a little more breathing room. But if you can, 4000 would be a good amount, especially if you plan on playing a lot of hands.

Alright, I'm off to play at a tourney.

Research Papers That I've Made In College

pampagago lang hahaha! wala nga lang ung mga abstracts ndi ko dala ung mga kopya.
here's a list of research papers/journals that i've made these past four years.

Feb, 2004 - ISTEYTSAYD: A STUDY OF COLONIAL MENTALITY ON FOOD PREFERENCE AMONG FILIPINO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.
UNIV Final Paper Presentation. Tanglaw University Center, Quezon City.
(im very proud to say that this is a published journal. im even more proud to say that it got published in an ALL GIRLS publication competition in italy HAHAHAHAH!!! ung ibang groupmates ko kasi babae)

March, 2004 - THE EFFECT OF VARIETY IN FOOD PREFERENCE
Biological Psychology Laboratory
(a special thank you to mr. stephen brian lim for being a very cooperative paricipant in this study. unfortunately, the data was horribly skewed because of him).

March, 2004 - REWARDS PUNISH: A STUDY ON THE EFFECT OF THE LEVEL OF INCENTIVES AS A MOTIVATIONAL FACTOR IN CHEATING AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS.
Biological Psychology Laboratory
(thank you participants for admitting to us that you are all greedy cheaters. see you in the guidance counsellor's office)

April, 2004 - JOLOGS PERCEPTION SCALE.
Psychometrics Laboratory 1
(a special thank you to all of the 400+ participants coming from AMA university, STI college, and DLSU's college of ENGINEERING and the people in Z2 canteen.)

Dec, 2005 - A STUDY ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF WORK MOTIVATION AND SELF-EFFICACY TO JOB SATISFACTION AMONG CALL CENTER WORKERS
Directed Research in Psychology 2

Dec, 2005 - JOB SATISFACTION AND THE PERCEIVED STRENGTH & WEAKNESS OF MERALCO’S HR STAFFING DEPARTMENT
Practicum in Psychology

another controversy for me hehehehe

I posted this message on the yahoogroups of the presidents of SOA. Let's just say I received less than flattering remarks for this.

Una, napapansin namin na sobrang mainitan ang laro paminsan nasinisisi na sa referee ang pagkatalo ng isang koponan, kahit walangbasehan. Iyong iba diyan, kaibigan natin at kapwa ka-SOA na pumipitong mga laro niyo kahit hindi naman kinakailangan. Bigyan din natin nggalang ang mga kuya na referee ng men's basketball. Kung kaya'tnapagpasyahan namin na papalabasin na namin sa covered courts angkahit sino man na sisigaw o magkukumento ng hindi kanais-nais sareferee o kahit na sa kalaban. Kung ayaw niyang lumabas, papatigilinkaagad-agad namin ang laro at tatalunin ang org niyo kahit lamang pakayo ng 1000 puntos.Ikalawa, nahihirapan kami na magsimula ng maaga dahil walang nagdadalang bola. Kung kaya't kung walang nagdala sa kahit sinong koponan namaglalaro ay papasyahin namin na double disqualification. Puwede kayohumiram sa P.E. dept pala.Ikatlo, sana dumating kayo ng sa tamang oras. Kung hindi kayodumating sampung minuto pagkatapos ng nakatakdang oras ay papasyahinna namin na default na kayo. Hindi na kami ulit magtatawag sa mgaorgs kung nasaan na kayo.Ikaapat, walang tataas ng boses sa amin kapag wala kaming atraso sainyo. Sobrang pagod na kami sa soac at hindi na namin kailangan pa ngmga magtataas ng boses sa amin at magrereklamo. Ayos lang sa aminpag-usapan ang mga puna niyo tungkol sa soac pero sana huwag pagalit.Kaagad-agad namin gagawing default ang susunod na MGA laro ninyokapag may isa pang magtaas ng boses sa kahit isa sa amin sa soaccommittee.Maaaring magsaya pa rin tayo sa soac ng nagbibigay-galang lalo na samga kapwa kapatid natin sa SOA.

Dead air

Hellooooooooooo (helloooooooo) (hellooooooooo)

Wow. Lakas ng echo.