L.C.L.E. can suck my dick... and take all day!
Look what L.C.L.E. did to my desktop! I'll start this rant by quoting one of my friends and classmate. "I can't believe we're paying 80,000 pesos to teach ourselves!". He couldn't have said it any clearer! The L.C.L.E. is said to be "Learners oriented". Now I have to say, the "Learners oriented" type of teaching has been around for ages (Yes. not like what most people believe that L.C.L.E. is the first one of its kind. No it's not.) And I have to give it to most of these organizations who were able to implement it properly and cleanly. It was a good clean job. But what sets this system apart from every other system there is, is that in L.C.L.E. they never really teach you anything! You couldn't even if you wanted to. On opposed to the other style of "Learners oriented" teaching. They still tell you what to learn. You just have to understand it. And that, I believe, Is what its really about. Not this garbage that they're trying to give to us now. And what is up with the themes?! Conservation?! really?! I think that the so-called "theme" for L.C.L.E. is one of the key factors as to why it sucks ass alot! It hinders most subjects that rely on abstract thinking and creativity like Art and Music from being delivered properly. And while were talking about ideology, true, L.C.L.E. is a good system in theory. But then again, communism is a good theory too! And did it work?! I also hate how they introduced it to us. What I can't understand is why they have to inforce it mid-year! Why couldn't they just enforce it when school actually start and when parents actually know what they're getting their kids into! You know who's really behind this?
The Man, Mr. Holmes. I hear that dick bought a new Honda Civic. He better watch where he parks from now on!
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Mass service
I haven't served mass for a month and It gave me the time to observe much of how the younger servers in our church serve these days. I really can't say Im not disappointed. While the mass was going on I couldn't help but ask myself, "Was I like this when I was younger?". The kids I've been watching serve these past months were to say the very least sloppy, fidgety, informal --not to mention talkative, mass servers. In not so many words, Lazy. These kids were around 8 to 12 more or less. I really couldn't get why they were moving in and out of their chairs and talking while they were in their positions too much. And yet I still wondered how I look like back then.
I started serving when I was 9 years old. During my first year serving at mass, we used to wear these really thick cloth sotanas the ones that made you look like you were about to serve the pope or something. And to add to that, this was way back around 1999. Back when the church I was in didn't have air-conditioning. Sure, we'd rely on the electric fan that was around. But more often than not, the older commentators right next to us would bogart it. If this wasn't enough to make you fidget around in the seat you were in, I was under the observation of this fag named Michael who would be much like a dickhead supervisor. He never really had anything to do with the church, nor did he have any postions in the knights. He just wanted to kick me like a can all over the church. This is how I first got into serving. It was very rigid. I couldn't say it didnt help me though.
Fast forward to 7 years later and the Sotanas were off, we were at our third parish chaplain and the doors were sealed; "Hello, air-conditioning!". So now, I've learned the ropes. Pretty much every facet of it. By now I know how it runs like a swiss watch. It was also during this time that our former president over-recruited mass servers. All of which were very poorly trained and some were still lacking maturity. Not to mention most of the older, more experienced servers are starting to "out-live" the mass serving "Phase", The future of the mass servers are at their hands. And not unless they start to shape up or mature, the future doesn't look very bright.
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Featured music:
This week's featured music is from U2's 1988 album "Rattle and hum". The song "All I want is you" is the fourth and final single released from the album. The music video for this song is about a tragic love story between a dwarf and trapeze artist. One of which dies in the end. There is disagreement amongst fans about which one died though. In its 1989 single release, it topped the Billboard hot 100 at 83, the rock charts at 13 and the U.K. singles chart at number 4.
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"Milenyo" is just a passing wind. And hell is just a furnace
Last thursday, Metro manila faced the worst typhoon to hit it in 11 years. And while most of you readers out there were in the comfort of you're own homes, I found myself in the middle of this raging typhoon with nothing but a cellphone that doesn't even work. It wasn't my favorite of days, but it's a day I won't soon forget. It was when we left the house in search for a safer spot to park my father's car that it all started. On the way, we came across a family walking in the streets. Now I consider picking up a couple of people walking around whilst the storm was hurling projectiles everywhere a good thing, but this was where things turned for the worst. It was almost ironic when just as soon as we dropped them off at their house that a tree covered the route we passed through to get there. It was comical yet frightening and to add to that, the car bailed out on us. Imagine being in the brunt of a storm inside a car stalled in the middle of the street with a tree threatening to bear down on you. It wasn't long though, before the tree came hurling at us. I was inside the car while this all happened. It was as if it was in slow-motion. I can still picture the tree as it fell a couple of inches short of the windshield. I was horrified both at the fact that a huge tree almost crushed me to death and that we butchered our father's car while actually trying to seek a safe spot for it. Everybody (not me) frantically sawed our car off and an hour later we finally made it to the church (which is a block away from my house) with a flat tire, a missing left side mirror and a dent on the fender. and just as we made it to the safety of our house, the rain finally died down. The village lost its glamour that day. I took some pictures with the phone I held. (It wasn't good for anything else) It isn't pretty though.
Cuenca street
Tanauan street (welcome to the jungle!)
Lipa street
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Enter Dr. Sbaitso
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Coco?
Hey! It's Courteney Cox! I just can't help but stare at this picture for a minute or two when I see it! Yeah, I know she's married and she's 25 years older than me.. I can dream, can't I?!
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