Listening to Bon Jovi's Everyday. Why not? The idea of making fun is listening to many songs that co-relate with what's happening today in other words timely. I'm right on track always in time with what's happening around the world. If that makes you crazy sing Madonnaa's Crazy for you or just Have a Nice Day! Kung tan-ga ka in one day that's not my problem. Look at the mirror, you are younger than me in age but you look older than me. Ten years older! Maldita ka kasi. Dunno why she's called infant. Oh my reminds me of Infanta Q. The long road to infanta q. I couldn't believe that the island of Philippines is really BIG. Bigger than VI. But if you'll look at the map?! Uhm the mapmaker's probably alcoholic and drunk when he made the MAP.

So for the continuation of my story, I have to rely on fictitious character but the story is REAL. TRUE STORY with a lil' bragging. So it is stated in Psycho Book that highly intelligent people or those considered to be in the category for high intelligence is based on one criteria > high earnings >salary> compensation, wages in the most comprehensible way to understand this is YOU ARE CONSIDERED INTELLIGENT if you have HIGH SALARY from your work or occupation. The millionaires and billionaires are considered to be highly intelligent and very intellectual.

Now if you are unemployed, not working and even if you are working but not being paid then you are not intelligent. Ha ha ha ha!

Let me go back in the past. How could a student be intelligent then? If the basis of intelligence is through their earnings? Let say the basis is on credit earnings for subjects then so that's a CHECK! That's allowed. I sell candies and chocolates (curly tops, sergs, pastillas , polvoron, the white chocolate cubes imported from Switzerland) at school in Grade School competing with my teachers. I sell ice candy and bags of ice at home. My Father used to tell me to sell bundles of vegetables from our garden (camoteng talbos) in the market but I refused. I was ashamed. Later I obliged, together with my younger brothers we brought the veggies to the wet market only to find out that my classmate Rosemary had a stall in the wet market selling vegetables also. I couldn't help giggle and we both laugh. My best friend Angie 's own way to tackle that situation? As if it is such a big issue. Well her family's rich. Her father rented a small shop near the big supermarket. One time she asked me to go with her and found out that it's not a simple shop for merchandise, not a boutique but a beerhouse! I was surprised. I want to get out. But she turned on their jukebox and the sound of  salsa and El Bimbo fills the air. She asked me to dance the "El Bimbo." It was the most popular song that time. From El Bimbo to  Glass House of the Commodores. Later she went up to the small stage and started singing and her sisters joined her. I was being entertained to their one of a kind talent. Well, that's the last time I heard of her. She went to a different school, private school in High School. I'm not made to be an entertainer. Declamation, drama, singing and dancing ? They are not my talent. That I cannot brag on having a good voice. My voice is not for singing. Either way my voice is not for speech, drama, or romance in other words my voice wont pass the telemarketing business nor voice for those sexy women who use their beauty and body for hooking up. I have the mind of a man. I'm not a lesbian nor I am a man. I'm a woman with a MIND. My head is so BIG! I have a BRAIN! I maybe not intelligent compared to what you are making fool of yourself but I am not corrupt.

Reminiscing The Past

I'm not a sucker for attention nor did I suck up to my teachers in Grade School. Never do I ask my teachers to raise my grades or beg for them to do alterations for all the test that I had. All my test, exams, quiz all turned out to be perfect without no mistake, no erasures, no error whatsoever. It's a perfect score of 100% or 99% the marks given to all my exams. WRITTEN form. And when I received perfect scores then I had the chance to check all the test papers in my class. I was the Class President not because I was appointed by the teacher but because all the classmates voted for me to have that position as an officer. This is based also in school performance, overall perf. in test and recitation. Leadership and effort. I hold and keep the whole class secured and order when the teacher was on leave due to sickness and other important meeting. I took  charge in over all work assigned to me and I assigned some of the members of the Officers Club voted to promote orderliness and cleanliness of the classroom. It was such an order arrangement of things, procedure and system. It was patterned on "Martial Law" educational system which has more than appeal to law abiding citizen of that country. The only culprit to the order of things are those rude ill-mannered individuals who are chaotic and barbarians in nature. Just two of them though. Oh yeah I have long memory and I can still remember their names and face. For them in-orderliness and being loud is a must when teachers gone out of the room. For them when the cat is away, the mouse will play. Since I have the key to the room, and set of keys for the metal shelf bookcase for  all the newly published books donated by the government it is my duty to protect those 50 books (hard bound cover) (white paper) (shiny and glossy) (perfect bond paper) 50 books for English subject, 50 books for Mathematics, and 50 books for Science. We seldom use the books. Heavy, too precious and expensive. My teacher thought she'll pay for the wear and tear and damage to those books. The metal bookcase is costly and it has glass sliding door. She used to tell me to take care of those books, the cabinet and the keys.  I have 49 classmates. Fifty students in one class room. One adviser. Eight subjects: English, Pilipino, Mathematics, Science, Social Science, Music and Arts, PE (Physical Education). Our extra curricular activities: Girl Scout of the Philippines (GSP, I am the Patrol Leader) that's the only extra curricular activity I can remember. Each subject has one teacher, different teacher. Each teacher has her own lesson plan being checked almost daily by the principal who comes to the classroom to check the teacher's agenda, lesson plan and see how the room is kept in order and cleanliness a must. Strict eh? Teachers are very strict in school. Formality wise, everyone's working very professional. In professional manner and each student should be strictly managed inside the school. No parents are allowed in the school unless if there are disputes needed to tackle during the PTA Meeting. No dispute whatsoever. Except one "conflict between RH and the sophisticated teacher named Mrs. P. The case was brought to court which I wont reveal here. Of course not my business to tell it publicly. It's just my story that is being broadcasted here.  My Mother's the PTA President. There's not much they can do anyway because the students can manage all the work at school. There's really no problem with my classmates I think we're all smart. This is due to the amount of hard study strict compliance to the rote system. It's a must. We have to sharpen our memory like a knife. When things get complicated and other teachers from other class get so paranoid why our class get higher mark or score the teachers doubt the test. A half Chinese Filipina teacher was summoned to do the teaching on memory. Almost everyday we have poems and verses to memorize. It started with few significant lines as in quatrain. Then one board filled with paragraphs of one poem. Later on she asked us to memorize longer version of poetry 3 blackboards we have to memorize within time limit. Later on she ordered to memorize 6 to 10 pages of poem also within time limit. Well that's not funny anymore. She made us looked like robots. I myself became a robot too robotic to have the poem delivered in front of the class. I was there in front of the class having to recite the poem and the rest of the class have to do the same. Nobody complains. I should complain being the Class President but in my opinion that's probably for the best. If the President of the Philippines can manage to have his speech delivered for  public listening and viewing having to listen to one hour hear him talk without any tele-prompter then maybe it  fair to have that done to us. How he could do such thing? His memory is that of a computerized robot? Or it's just he is or was an eloquent speaker who knows no bounds and limit to what he can do because of his high intelligence.

The rote system that is not administered here in Canada. There is no discrimination whatsoever. Every student is dealt with proper education and everyone benefit from it. There is no favoritism nor extra under the table dealings. Not that I know of. Until the last year of my Elementary years in Grade Six when suddenly a new teacher was accepted in the School. She is from another school and maybe she wants to set her record straight and be known. She had favoritism and I am not her favorite even if I have good grades (mark). She likes to embarrass me in the class for no apparent reason. Ah I think it's because my friends and I, the whole class came rushing in inside the room and we're sweating after a football game. It was so hot that afternoon and we were late already to even wipe our sweat. You know the rushing in to the room with our heavy feet on the hardwood floor  infuriated her and almost made her go berserk saying nasty to us and most especially to me saying, " If you're really smart why don't you move to section one..."

What a huge humiliation and my face got numb but probably all red in shame. Poor me. Waaahh!! I almost cried but didn't. I was stubborn. I never cry when I was in Elementary. Even if I'm always been bullied by the "barbarians." I've been bullied being called "rebulto." Meaning a "statue!" A statue???? What the hell! Am I a statue? Oh I think it's because when I'm in front of the class I never move I just stand there and talk and preside without emotions and tackle with the lesson plan for the day administered by my teachers to take charge when she's not there with us. I was called "horse" because of how fast I run when we played football always having home run. They never call me teacher's pet because I earned my mark, my grades because I was a wide reader, studious and has been diligent student whose discipline with work habits, ethics,  about learning not studying is the best solution. TO LEARN and GAIN. Studying is an option. Again the best way to tackle studying is TO LEARN. What I can gain from learning? Is there a reward? Reward of being true to myself and what I'm capable of. Not because of pressure and somebody's arrogance I will stoop down low to anybody. Learn to love yourself and your identity not the identity of others.


Oh my God! All my classmates looked at me. They felt sad and unhappy staring at my teacher and in retaliation nobody didn't participate in the class discussion. All of us were quiet and we tried to ignore her. She looked like a "nobody" in that room. The classroom becomes a hurdle, a cemetery every time she comes to the room. I'm glad and so happy to have other teachers who are more than pleased to have me in their class. They know me very well from Grade One to Grade Six and they know what I'm capable of. It's just that this new teacher wants to be famous in that school she had her way. She was popular after that. The limelight's on her. She changed the school into a rather more pleasant for her own convenience not for us.




So there...our teacher said something very humiliating. It was an incredibly loud and suffocating. As if it turns my world upside down. I should have asked who are you to tell me such thing? You are just a new teacher in this school you have no proof yet of your credential if there's any. You are nothing compared to the rest of the teachers and educator of this school. Well dear readers I didn't say such accusation. My teachers in other subjects seemed to know what happened and they tried to avoid the conflict. The woman or the teacher taught from private school and she is more than liberated compared to the old conservatives in school. Her teaching method is based on drama and declamation for Language Arts (English ) which is not my forte in Grade School. I hate drama people! She wants us to declaim but after that humiliation everyone's so "stern" at her. We seldom join her drama in the class. Only one enjoys the limelight with her. She is one of my friends named AS. She obliged to declaim to join the prestigious contest that the basis of IQ is through Declamation. Sigh.

Her declamation piece begins with facial reaction of hopelessness, teary- eyed, wandering and wondering as if lost in translation, feeling like lukaret and then words came out from her tongue and said, " Alms, alms.....alms..mercy... She had her two hands and palms open up begging for mercy asking for food and water. Then the long teary, sad moments of awe, sadness as if melancholia has befallen her and the theme of the narration suddenly halt to another scene or sequence and she screamed and shouted, " Dorobo, dorobo.....speaking niponggo and a lot more of Japanese lines to the effect that her family was being driven away from their house. Then fire broke out and massive killing followed and the ending?

Oh well...you can ask her of that long declamation story that my teacher and her enjoyed for the rest of that one year. My other classmates and I enjoyed the privilege of the SECTION ONE BILL of RIGHTS.

I'm not sure whether I have to keep Facebook or get out from Facebook. I like the original format of Facebook because of its simplicity. Now that their priority is about that Timeline (ala Multiply theme format) I feel like my account over there gone to waste! Sorry! My apology to the creator of Facebook. The Timeline format is a mess and the loading, uploading of every images: photos and text messages are too slow for my comfort. Too much bugs maybe. Well you have more than 500 million users what you think will happen?

It will answer to Robert Frost's  >> Road Not Taken.

The Road Not Taken

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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim Because it was grassy and wanted wear, Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I marked the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.  P.S.  That's what happened in the COPY & PASTE system  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is what you should learn in the net. It's a HUNTER's Game. POEM HUnter's P.S. 2 Don't click on those icons and logos on the right unless you want to. Unless of course if you want LINKS to Others. Thanks.

Oh dran! Keep on cracking the codes. One who is stubborn tried to crack the code though still not right.  So what if you are rejected? There are millions of books being rejected by millions of readers. There are million of books that are kept inside the library and nobody even bother to touch them. Ghostbuster! Ah dusty! Go to the department store book bin area and few people bother to take a look. People are too busy to read books but they are not too lazy to read blogs. BLOGS the" in thing " nowadays. That's why newspapers and magazines started to compete with the bloggers. Bloggers have their own fascinating passion to prove that their way is the highway and to the world beyond. It is liberating. It is the soap box. Blogger and blogs has its own appeal and it's really charming. Right on the target and timing of providing entertainment for the new generation of today. How lucky Google is for bringing this one of a kind blogging community. Blogspot!

I received few emails from this "guy" who wants being helped with his realty business. That kind of help is not a less than an hour work but more than five to ten hours of work. It's a kind of help because of all people, of all worker he doesn't need to pay consultation fee unlike if he will hire other workers. He needs to pay only lesser amount compared to other workers doing this kind of job. That means he is receiving special discount if that worker do the job for him. However, that "guy" has problem paying. He cannot pay on time. Not only he cannot pay on time he cannot read invoices. He is a businessman and he knows the responsibility of paying his worker. If invoices are made and sent to him he should pay right? If he cannot pay he should tell to that worker why he is delayed in his payment. All he needs to pay is the amount in dollars, less than five hundred dollars. You know that's not much from the amount of money he earned from his realty business. What's wrong with that guy? What's wrong with him? He needs to be sued for such delay of payment? Even the security deposit he cannot return to us. We left the rented house 8 months ago and until now he cannot return the security deposit. I don't mind if it's only less than fifty dollars but the security deposit is $425.00! That's a lot of money. I can use it for so many things. I can pay my kids grad. fee. I can have it for my family's monthly grocery budget. Then the rest of the amount he owed is close to $2,000. He can pay it right away. He is a rich guy so what's stopping him not to pay back? What's wrong? We need to pay our rent to our new house here and there are other things need to be in order. When somebody else doesn't pay then the order of things become troublesome. It's like a domino! That's how bad it is.

See this small dispute once it gets bigger complicating to bigger conflict until the whole city is affected. You'll never know it might affect the whole country.

Putting off a small fire is easier. Prevent it while you can because when wildfire gets unruly you'll have trouble putting it off and the rest of the world suffer from this disorder of things that is so wildly rampant.

I have a friend who is questioning about how many of those people in the Philippines who always find time to go on vacation >  holidays and can travel anywhere they want to. It is an inquiry on how they can afford such thing? How they can travel around the country and feel like winners of  sweepstakes or lottery. Because here in Canada and even in the United States people here no matter how rich they are they cannot afford to travel just like what other people in Philippines so they thought what's the story wishbone? Well she is just asking with much curiosity.

If I'll be in the Philippines would I be able to travel like these people do? Probably I can go on vacation or tour only because of  reunion with relatives and friends who live in the province and whose house are close to the beautiful spots such as the beach or close to where the famous volcano is. If you live in metro Manila it takes probably three to five hours to commute to the nearest beach in Cavite and or Batangas City. To travel in Visayan region and Mindanao would be an hour or two hours flight via PAL or Philippine Airlines domestic flight. But then of course all these travel requires financial or monetary aid. Everything requires money in all things wonderful. In all things beautiful money is required. Just like here in Canada. Every move you make requires payment. You just go to Victoria or Vancouver requires to fill up full tank  gasoline for your van, your car or whatever vehicle you have  to travel to those destination. Some people in Philippines may visit places too many of them in one spot and yet pay only for the cottage maybe and they are paying in group. ..maybe paid in KKB (Kanya Kanyang Bayad). Then they have to hire a driver and a big bus or car pool . They have so much time unlike here in Canada when and where  everyone is always busy. Work, school, no time for leisure time cuz even vacation time is set up for work. I think too many children and teens missed time not able to see the whole country of Canada. They cannot even see the whole British Columbia. I am  fortunate to be able to see the whole British Columbia up to Alaska and boundary of Alberta, California and Seattle.

It's good for those Filipinos able to have holidays and vacation where they can post online what Philippines is and what you can see with your own eyes through those pictures, the photographs of the scenery which can help the tourism industry in that country. Good for them that they can afford luxury through visiting their own provinces within that country. Maybe they are rich. Who knows eh? According to a columnist: Filipinos are poor pretending to be rich or rich pretending to be poor! Which one is true?

Ah, there is nothing important here in Canada other than SPORTS! The view is not much of important to them. SPORTS that matters is what's keeping them alive! They have beautiful homes, beautiful cars , vans, pick-up truck and yes their HOMES are the best things in life where they can just relax at home in front of their TV watching sports. Relax by using state of the art computer and other luxuries. People have their own views of HOME and their kind of home is simply not outside but inside.

But how long can you stay inside the house? How long can you stay and live just being alone and with nobody to talk to? Home is not a home and a house is not a home when nobody talks. When everyone thinks that the house is actually a place just to watch TV, eat 3 meals a day, sleep when its bedtime and wake up the next morning because that's what people do. Waking up when it's over! Really life here in Canada and or America the countries you adore and envied are really soooooooooooooooooooo F boring! Those who are born here don't know the difference. Nothing to be compared with because they never been to other countries. That's what it is. It's the same kind of story when I was in the Philippines and I haven't seen Hongkong yet. I first thought HK is just another province old and not so modern unlike Makati area. I was culture shock of its modernized city, the tall buildings, skyscrapers, the big department stores, the metropolis ultra modern  metro railway transit, the cable cars, the Ocean park the amusement park with the roller coaster. The concrete jungle. The easy access to transportation and the civilized transportation facility and its people who value the peace and order. It was a clean city. Peaceful and orderly. It was like that during the Martial Law. Everything is in order. That's the kind of life. That's what it should be in a modern society with nothing to fear. There's a curfew you cannot galavant and roam around unprotected. Anyway, when I left HK and returned home to Philippines, Makati area is the next plan or civility and order of the new era of another HK in the making. As of now Makati area is a greenbelt ultra modern cosmopolitan can already be compared to HK and Singapore when it comes to urbanized civilization offering the convenience of modern life.

What can we expect here in Canada? You really have to travel further to big city, to Vancouver main downtown area, to Toronto, Montreal, Victoria and Ottawa to find out for yourself what big main cities have to offer otherwise you wont see here at my place what you expect in HK or Makati. You really have to love the forest and huge body of water to appreciate where I live. Ya I know I'll be a hermit soon.

When asked about permission on whether teens should have knowledge about S_x Education I was reluctant on what I need to say or write on what should be the right way to tackle sensitive issue. I asked my two teen boys (my sons) if they have S_x Education in their curriculum and they both said NO. That's only for people with disability or Special Needs. Ha?! I was shocked. I couldn't believe what I heard. Should it be mandatory for people who are normal or rather for people who are of age or depends on maturity level? Students who are taking Medicine, Nursing, Biology and other subject in Science and Sociology. Or those who need to know about Family Planning.

Know what? S_x Education or rather topic about  s-e-x is a taboo in my family in my own home where I was raised by Catholic parents. My Mother is very religious and that subject is never mentioned in our home. Although I remember that there is a topic of s-e-x in subject such as Biology  because in this subject we studied about reproductive organs and the web of life. Biology subject is in High School. Even in Botany in my College pre-requisite there is topic about reproduction of plants. So that's not a problem. We watch movies that are suitable for our age and well at the maturity level everyone needs to know what is right from wrong. It's just s-e-x in  human beings is a very sensitive issue. So that depends on the experts to tackle with inside the classroom especially with the "Special Needs Adults whose mind thinking is of at the level of  "children" meaning not fully developed yet.  However when the teacher mentioned such as: What is public and private behavior, good and bad touching and how to communicate maybe it will open up COMMUNICATION in a broader sense. Then the true meaning of s-e-x and what are the consequences...without exploiting their young minds to subject that they are not supposed to be familiar with, rather protecting themselves from s-e-x -ual predators.

How you can best tackle that complicated subject is building a strong character on your Special Needs students. Armed them with the right defense mechanism such as self-awareness, self defense and self-discipline.  Social Awareness on social media and social network. Religion. Taboos regarding gender bender and what  they need to understand? Opening subject like this open up their curiosity therefore the best way is CHARACTER EDUCATION. Stick with it.

SEE how I type the word s-e-x here in this blog? Because if you type the correct word it will open up LINKS to other site and you'll get into trouble. This is what you have to know in the internet. Not that I am a  savvy literate tech expert but this how cradle snatchers I mean cat's cradle with lots of spiders  in the net. It's like a weblike structure that once you type or label your blog subject it OPEN LINKS to other links which you don't want being associated with. This is also something to do with if you are looking for a name or search for url or name of a celebrity you want to search through the net and you mispelled their names, guess what you'll be surprised about too many  _ornography associated with those popular celebrities. The worst thing is you'll be bombarded with lots of computer bugs and computer virus. So be very aware.