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I want to post something sublime in here but I am afraid I am in a mental grave right now.

I should be happy since I actually got what I wanted. I am, in a way, but I feel apprehensive and a little afraid right now.

You really cannot just dislodged pains and fears, ano?

Surprise: I'm Married

Yes, I know it is a shocker.

Nobody expected that this would happen but I got married, officially ha, last January 4, 2010.

I will tell you the details on my next post...

Pretentiousness 2010

What is the true nature of man?

Is it really the hard-I-don't care-about-this-world exterior or is there more?

I have been reading blogs and I have been wondering what truth or lie hides in every post.

Are they being true or does the content involve something I sometimes refer to as teh Rizal-effect?

For 2010? Let us be true to ourselves.

In short? Mga plastic kamu tanan!

Hehehe

Walang masabi.

Just me, waiting for a certain eruption.

Why don't you join me?

The Start of the End.

This is it.
I am about to let go of the ties that once held me secure but have now become bindings, holding me from soaring towards my destiny.
This is it.
I am about to lift up tattered wings that I never once spread.
This is it.
I will soar up the heavens and reach out for my dreams.
This is it...
The Start of the End.

Hey, that is not a poem. Just an expression of the curious mix of emotions I have inside. Waaaah. I want to cry. I want to laugh.I want to scream. I want to tear my eyes out. I want to vomit. Basta. I cannot totally explain what i feel. This is it lang, a.

Im so Out of It

Totally out of it.

Yeah, I just got out of a freakin hospital yesterday.

It felt nice being confined. It's like you have been removed from the real world nd all those white walls actually felt comforting and safe. Maybe that is why they always have white walls or cream colored walls in hospitals and mental institutions.

For two days and two nights, I felt relaxed, despite the chest pains and the allergy stings and the stomach pains.

I enjoyed my stay, inspite of the unpalatable soft diet (lugaw, yuck!). Because I was too fat, they had to stick three needles into my fingers to find a vein, whew.

Wasted blood and money.

I realized one thing though. ONe shoudl always keep in touch with ones friends. Even the iciest man would need and want visitors when he or she is confined. And I also made a sort of promise to myself: to visit those people I know who gets confined in hospitals...

Well, my students did visit me but I was already dishcarged from the hospital so they walked to our home which is a considerable distance from the school and the hospital. I was touched. They even brought me fruits... out of their lunch money... they did not have to do that ... whaaaaa.... their presence is good enough...

Hey pipz, if any one gets sick, inform me ha. I am the picture or politeness and thoughtfulness now. By the way, I love you all guys and I value your presence in my life. Thanks for being there....

A New phone, A New Expectattion

My mother got me a new phone courtesy of a post paid phone plan. It’s a Nokia5130c-2complete music player (the musicexpress), 2 mega pixels lens camera./video, a 1 gig microSD, and a voice recorder.

It also has an internet connection which I took advantage of like mad (so now I am temporarily cut off from the service until I settle 50% of my bill which happens to be P3,797.00 only).

I am going to pay 2,000 once I get my salary. I have not yet received the billing so I am wondering where I am supposed to pay it.

Anyways, I used the phone to encourage me to change the almost negative attitude I have of my job as a teacher.

You see, the high school curriculum has become quite irrelevant in my way of thinking.

The English curriculum has lots its glitter and glamour…

I know it is not the fault of the curriculum planners. Its just that the needs mostly addressed therein are those of the types who have come to master grammar and are using English competently enough.

Some teachers would be too immersed in the grammar aspect and some would be too focused in literature.

What these helpless incompetent learners of English need is to overcome the emotional filters first. Then, they should be made to use the language in an unconscious way. They should also be exposed to various opportunities to use the language without it being obvious drills and the like.

The knack there is teaching without being obvious about it because today’s generation, especially those in the regular classes, are quite averse to being instructed.

I developed a new plan for my lessons and I have employed it right after the one week semestral break.

In a seminar with the Alternative Learning System, I have learned about the 4A’s approach to adult learning and I decided to modify it a bit and employ it in my class along with the other methods and strategies I have learned in college (which I have failed to actually use).

Now, for a week, not one of my English class has become boring since all the learners have been busy.

It was tiring since I had to devise a fairly detailed lesson plan for the week and I have to make revisions everyday and every time I teach a class (since not all can do the activities).

All in all however, they have been quite effective and I have been looking forward to going back to school despite the teachers movement and all that.

Here are some of the pictures I have taken of my students during the activity.