yes yes yes

o, para sa mga graduates sang UP nga POOR in intellect and skills and remain poor in intellect and skills this is...asin sa pilas...or how do they call that in english: rubbing salt to the open (the bone and the marrow showing and all the gory torn muscles), bleeding wound.

....Now what about us? We all agree that our education pipeline is poorly
constructed to begin with, and being at the other end of the pipeline, there
is little we can do to clean out the rot or remove the rust or deepen the
pipeline. But even in UP, higher education has become increasingly remedial
not just at the level of incoming freshmen, who experienced the XDS program
in the late '70s and early '80s, and summer bridge programs in the '90s, but
also juniors and seniors who do not possess or are not adequately being
prepared for 21st century competencies. Yet, they enter the world with our
diploma..."  (daw kaladlukan pero WINNER)

kay maria serena diokno na kuno according man sa nag post sa amon nga UP High groups site. 

so sa mga taga-UP nga puro lang dakdak pero di man kabalo mag ubra paper. PAGHIPOS. 

WINNER.

thoughts to ponder.

some planning stuffs that i have been reading which i took from my boss' blog which i think is a good stuff to think about especially in our infrstructure crazed third world mindset.

we think it's just good to have all these flyovers and wide roads

 and a

 lot of 

signs everywhere alienating the people more and making it much more difficult to go to melly's to take the 5:thirsty drinking sessions which expectedly end at 8:00 PM with ****tya mels*** bugging us to get out of Melly's now because her husband is sick and needs to rest and thus all drunkards like us must go home now now now -- but not without 

paying first for our case of beer and safari or happy nuts or mr. chips. so 

we collect our things and rummaged through empty wrappers of the junkies and cracked shells of balot.

so that's it. 

think. think. think.

”If there was one more lane, would that eliminate the traffic jam or simply increase the number of drivers who used the road?”

gogol notes 3

17 november 2008

Dear tatay,

Late yesterday afternoon nanay, kika mao and I went to CPU because nanay said I should have some time outdoors. Kika mao wanted to attend the Baptist church service in her university. She decided to accompany us for a while because her friends were still busy with DOTA. I asked nanay to carry me all the way from our house to the acad oval – I don’t know how they call it there, tatay but it’s like the acad oval in diliman, although much much much smaller. Then just before we got to the oval I went down to run run run because I was seeing a really wide space and got so excited. When we got to the oval I ran to the football field. I had to squat to touch the silt from Typhoon Frank to feel that it’s real. I am touching sand and silt and dirt…the kind that we don’t have back in our apartment. Then I ran some more and there were the grasses already. So I squatted again to pluck some grasses to see if they were really real. I ran in circles, I ran all over the place, left and right to the scrawny dog of the other picnickers but nanay stopped me. She said the dog does not know me well and might bite me. But I insisted, so she carried me again and put me somewhere else. Like a chess piece. Nanay is clever. 

I did not run after the dog anymore. It was too far for my small legs. Then I saw the group playing with a ball. Then I wanted to play with them too. I think they were the same group with the dog. There were the 3 children and their mother and their father and some more adults. The small kid cried because he couldn’t have his time with the ball. The bigger kids had them. it was a volleyball but they used it like a football. but it doesn't matter as long as it can bounce and can be kicked!

Kika mao told nanay I should be brought there every Sunday. Nanay said we will bring our small ball next time so I can throw it up up up in the sky to fly with the birdies and the airplane that I saw flying together with the birds and the bats. When you come home for christmas tatay we will play there and you can help me throw the ball. Because I think you are stronger and you can throw the ball higher than the flying birds. But hit no bird!!! Because birds are our friends. :D

I hope in christmas I will be well enough to run. You think so, tatay?

I have colds. I have runny nose. Nanay brought with her my hanky. She wiped the snot from my nose every now and then.

Then in the morning tatay I asked nanay to play in the driveway. I did not wear any shorts. But my shirt was long enough to cover my pisot. Because my cars shoes is lost nanay made me wear the osh kosh. Nanay tried the rubber slippers but I can’t stand the band and if I don’t use the band they can’t stay on my feet for long. Maybe my feet don’t like them? because the cars and the nike shoes and the osh kosh stay. So I wore the osh kosh. Then I ran and ran and ran along the driveway. Sometimes with my head up high like that. Then after a while I had so much sweat so nanay took some cloth diapers to put on my back. kika mao said I should keep my back dry all the time or I’ll get pneumonia. What is pneumonia tatay? Is it like a cake? Or ice cream?

Nanay and I went ahead. Kika mao stayed for the service. It was already dark when we went home. It was only 5:45 but already dark. Nanay told me I am getting heavier each day. Maybe I am becoming big boy very fast. Maybe when we visit you in December, tatay, I will be bigger than you and you have to look up when you talk to me. That will be very funny. But I still want to be small boy so you can carry me all the time and put me on your lap while we listen to lala and locomotion and see pictures of myself on picasa.

Nanay said maybe I will visit the doctor today. Manang nening will bring me because nanay can’t take time off from her work. I will write you again tonight so you will know what the doctor said.

You take you vitamins every day tatay so your nose will not go runny like mine. And won’t have cough like mine.

Flying kisses,

Gogol

gogol' s notes 2

10 November 2008

 

Dear Tatay,

Lola is here today. She brought me grapes so I ate a lot of it. When nanay came home, I met her on the driveway. I was running because kika mao was chasing me.

 

My cars shoes is still lost. I don’t know where they are. Nanay can’t find them. manang nening also can’t find them. I don’t know who took them. it was a gift from lola ninfa. How could I have lost them. nanay has been bugging manang nening about it because she remembered my nike shirt that have mysteriously disappeared also.

 

Last Sunday we went marketing in the morning, tatay. Nanay and kika mao and I went first to Paa and we bought pandesal along the highway because there were no more pandesal inside paa’s store. I ate while nanay carried me. Then we went to Jaro market to buy vegetables and chicken. Nanay bought me ginging, the one that we put to cook with rice. Then we went to sm jaro. Nanay put me inside the cart and put in cooking oil, lucky me noodles, cheeze rings, barbeque marinade, tawge, fita bread and zonrox. I love going to sm jaro. Before you left we had good times at sm jaro. You push the cart with me in it and nanay throws things inside. Then I am a happy kid because I have so many things inside the cart with me. But nanay got sick last Sunday. We just slept and slept last Sunday after sm jaro  because nanay was very tired. She cooked us chicken with potatoes and bananas though. I loved it.

 

Nanay. Lola, lolo and kika mao said we will visit you on December. Lola said your room is nice. And also big. Lola said she asked you to buy tables but nanay said you are still waiting for you pay because you can’t spend so much of your money. Nanay said I have to get really fat and strong by December. Lola said kika pingping said maybe you should not buy tables because she might give you one.

 

Nanay always calls you when I am asleep already. Why is that? I have been telling nanay I want lala and locomotion but she forced me to sleep without them. nanay does not really like to play them. why? Maybe she becomes sad also.

 

I’ll be going to sleep now tatay. Please take care of yourself always. You have to look strong and fine in December also. When I come to visit. I love you!!

 

Flying kiss and hugs!

 

Gogol Bagol

gogol's notes

05 November 2008

 

Dear tatay,

 

We will really see you in December. Lolo told me we are going to visit you. I am excited. I will show you my new broom broom tricks and the body parts that I know. Nanay said she sent the package. Nanay said she enclosed my letter in the package. Did you read it tatay? I will write letters to you. Many letters so you will not get lonely there. And nanay also said so.

Nanay also said some African guy won the us elections.

Today I was a good boy. I did not cry and nag nanay all the time. We had fishy for dinner. Nanay and kiko dinot went to jaro market for the week’s supply. They bought bananas for me. it was still green but it is okay. I will just wait.

It’s sad waking up without your locomotion.

I saw marian just before dinner. I gave high five and flying kiss and a real kiss and I even touched her belly to see if hers is as big as mine. Renz is not around. They said he was admitted to the hospital. So you take care of yourself tatay. So you will not end up in hospital like renz.

 

 

Love always,

 

Gogol Bagol