I bet the program inside the Auditorium has kicked off already, as it looked full from front to the last seat when I checked on it a couple of minutes back. I wonder how they were able to accommodate and how they will be able t accommodate the dozens of parents that have recently arrived and are yet to confirm their attendance at the attendance desk. and then proceed to the Auditorium.

One thing that saddens me thou, is the fact that I haven’t seen any of my 18 fellow classmates. Add to it that none of them replied to my text message when I asked around whether they are present here today or not. But that is fine; I guess.

It is actually like an Deja Vu to me. Almost everything that took place today, took place a year back when I had my stellar run at the academe but failed terribly about two months into the school year due to personal issues that hindered me to continue attending my class under Z5 – BSIT. Let’s hope that this year won’t be the same anymore, and that I’ll be able to have a fruitful year at the Ateneo de Davao, and finally finish my journey that has taken quiet a lot of patience and energy from both parties, my parents and me. 4 more years. And that would be it. Good luck, to all!

AdDU Parents Meeting 2010 is a post from: Pinoy Teens Online

Patricia Mae Santos, is the pride of Davao, yet another Blue Knight (Ateneo de Dava) who is in the Pinoy Big Brother

Patricia Mae "Tricia" Santos Photos

House for the second successive Teen Edition. I bet she’ll do better than Priscilla, but I might be wrong again. Nevertheless, she’s a beauty. Tricia was born in Manila, but her family moved to Davao to take over the business of her grandfather. She’s beautiful, and that’s why she’s well deserving of her title “Athletic Muse ng Davao“. Can she make the Dabawenyos proud again?

Official Profile Details of Tricia Santos

Tricia Santos is my fellow Atenean. Well, I used to school at Ateneo de Davao. I’m not sure whether she’s also attended Grade School at the Ateneo as her face looks very familiar, but I might be mistaken again. There is not much that I can share about her, as her profile information is very limited.

One thing that sounds bit interesting though is the fact that she dislikes spending much money. Well, spending money for senseless things. She wants to save her money to purchase something else, something that she wants. It’s a good character that she’s showing with that, being smart to save some money, but at the end it still gets shelled out. :p

She always wanted to get involved with ABS-CBN, and, at the age of 13, Tricia even tried to convince her mother to attend a Acting Workshop by Abs-Cbn, but failed. Which made Tricia act a bit rebellious at her young age, with deeds like going home late and hanging out with an older crowd. Her lifestyle is very active, aside from being part of the Ateneo de Davao Varsity Volleyball Team. Her height is at 5’7, which isn’t bad for our 14 year old Athletic Muse of Davao!

A few more details from Tricias’s profile…
Hobbies: Volleyaball
Favorite Color: Pink
Favorite Food: Sinigang
Favorite Show: 90210
Favorite Actor: Enchong Dee
Favorite Singer: Colbie Caillat

Tricia Santos will be one of the main reasons why I’ll watch PBB and the Apartment House in specific. It’s very interesting to see how a fellow Atenean at Dabawenyo at the same time finds her way through the PBB season.

Other PBB Clash 2010 Housemate Profiles

Keep an eye on our tag PBB Clash Housemates for all the profiles of the present batch of teens listed in order of time posted. Or visit the summary post with the link to every housemate of the current Teen Clash Season.

PBB Teen Clash Housemate: Tricia Santos is a post from: Pinoy Teens Online

Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning “knowledge”) refers to any systematic knowledge-base or prescriptive practice that is capable of resulting in a prediction or predictable type of outcome.[1. WikiPedia]

From the statement that I have given above we can deduce that Science is a systematized body of knowledge. It requires to go through processes or steps that is also referred to as the Scientific Method. Even though Science can answer a lot of questions and issues rationally and provide reasonable feedback to a lot of things that have been happening around the globe, it do has its limitations which are (maybe) yet to be discovered.

Science might know a lot of things but one of the limitations it has is the origin of the humans, the start of life on earth and the creator himself who is named God our creator, from a religious point of view. Science and Religion do not always agree with each other and like emphasized in the movie Angels and Demons Science and Religion needs each other to understand the human better and our origin more detailed. They do not agree more since there has never been a scientific explanation about the existence of a God and as long as there won’t be any there will not be a single scientist who would agree that there is a God out there that has created all of us and the earth along with it.

The process/steps that I have mentioned above once again is called the scientific method wherein you have first to identify the problem, wherein that particular problem must be testable, achievable and something well-define, you need to be keen with your variables because others might interpret it as something totally different.

And just to give a random sample let’s analyze the following two issues that need to be solved.

One morning when I went to the garden and put pee on one of the flowers it started to bloom.

Do you understand the problem and can you identify the variables that are attached to it? Do you consider the question above a well define problem or not? Of course, it is not, because there are multiple strings that you can add to some of its variables like for example, the setting of the garden that morning, what kind of pee has been poured upon the flowers and what kind of flower has been peed on. A constructive problem that appears more properly defined would be

One morning when I went to the garden and put pee of my little baby son on one of the sun flowers it started to bloom.

Do you get the point now why it is very important to have the whole problem well defined before you engage into solving it? With just a single variable changed the whole experiment might have a total different outcome from what you are supposed to be come out with.

In our next Preliminary Review we’ll try to tackle Natural Science Basics once again and talk about the Variety of Organisms and their characteristics such as movement, reproduction and more.

Preliminary Review: Natural Science Basics is a post from: Pinoy Teens Online

I haven’t been the most interested guy in class due to my absences and they make me fall out of place -as I write-, the feeling of not belonging to the bigger crowd is over shadowing my low self-esteem that is currently flushing down an all time low, problems in the family have caused issues, my health have caused issues and now even my sideline on the internet is showing signs of dissatisfaction with the course that I have taken.

Probably, I did not decide that well which course I should take on and which would suit me the best, but I have no idea right now how to get myself out of the hole that I have lead myself straight into upon re-entering the Ateneo de Davao. I had this strong feeling that this move is yet the best thing that ever happened to me but I slowly have this awful believe of being corrected and leaded to a dead end where there ain’t be any turning back at this point.

Surely, I’m aware of the 36 thousand pesos tuition that my parents are wrapping together to have me educated at the Ateneo, but the present Georg Kevin Paquet that most of you believe of knowing – being this pretty incredible blogging sensation and SEO Whiz – ain’t be that awesome in real life as this post can tell.

Some have suggested that I should have picked Journalism instead of Information Technology and instead should have evening classes at the Holy Cross of Davao for that course to have myself paying full attention to my online responsibilities during day time and having enough time preparing myself for the classes that will follow later on the day, with that I would avoid the sleepy look that I have been carrying around for months no with no real time to have some rest or have some good time with myself, well, that’s if you’d exclude the mini trip I had to Manila’s NAIA that led me nowhere but home after 5 hours of frustration at the International Airport due to some financial reasons.

I guess I’m talking too much again, like a FRIEND would remind me about, but this is what I love to do, to talk, to share and express myself via any of the blogs as my medium of communication with the world. And before I wrap it up, I’m wondering what you think about this issue that I’m having? Should I have picked Journalism instead? Should I continue my weary stay at the Ateneo and wait until I can enroll for Journalism or a immediate stoppage -therefore waste of 36K- at the Ateneo help out to follow up my work to aid me in paying my tuition at the next school I’ll be attending -because I’m very sure that there are some older people (talking about my father and my mother) would not agree to pay the money needed to become a Journalist.

Info Tech or shift? is a post from: Pinoy Teens Online

Ateneo First Year Orientation Program Day 01 – June 02,

2009

The first day of the Orientation Program known as the Ateneo First Year Orientation Program or AFYOP was the most hassle one, I had difficulty adjusting to the new time schedule when to sleep and went to wake up and arrived late at the Ateneo by around ten minutes and that, even with riding a Taxi. Upon arrival at the gates of the Jacinto Campus of the said academe, I went straight to the covered court where I have seen not just one, two, three but a dozen and more fellow Philippine Women’s College of Davao batchmates of mine who are part of the School of Arts and Sciences, I went like, WOW, there are a lot of Philwomenians who want to show off their PWCian Culture among the Jesuits!

The whole program started with a Mass, just like everything starts with a traditional prayer or with a mass like in our case. The host of the mass was the University President who has warmly welcomed each and everyone to Ateneo and left us some words to think and ponder our thoughts on during our stay. We should great one another, -the next person close to us- said a random voice and the first classmate of mine every to approach me goes by the name Judy who just did that, “Hi.” with a murmuring response from yours truly. After the mass was celebrated and the crowded venue of S.A.S freshmen was crowded, we headed to our classrooms, ours was located at the 5th floor -so says the elevator- while at the covered court it was said that z5 will take up a room on the 4th level of the main building facing corner Roxas and Claveria. Our room was located on the C.M Recto side of things facing the Metro whatever you call that triangle.

We had an activity which was named the Human Bingo, where we had to have our papers signed by respective classmates of ours whose personality and other information suits best to what is being asked for, there’s been only one person in the whole room running with glasses and only one female lady who came from Ilocos, it was tough to approach our fellow classmates at first but once somebody has started, everyone has followed and of course, three of us finished ahead of the crowd and claimed some goodies that have been distributed today. He had other activities too, but the next most significant one for the morning session of that 2nd of July Orientation Program was when we were told to write our name, nickname or whatever calling on a piece of paper and add appropriate adjectives that describe us and our personality starting with each letter of our name, and I ended up with the following.
K ind
E ntertaining
V ersatile
S imple
Personality of which I have emphasized my flexible, or as listed above Versatile asset the most. Accompanying me from the PWC of Davao were Pamela Pascual and Rudolf Matalam of which the latter was my classmate during my Junior Years at the PWC. The girl next to my back was the one I have talked with instead asking her what from the letters of her name she’d emphasize the most and ended up saying the word Simple. And her nick by the way was Sang. The person to her right goes by the nickname Din -which is unfairly short :p- who emphasized on the word diligent while the other girl to Din’s right going by the nick Teza -who was the Senior Classmate of the former girl I mentioned above at the Holy Cross- emphasized at I don’t know what letter that was. haha.

It was just the start of the day, the start of a bond that I and my classmates gonna have for the whole semester ahead and already now, I’ve been able to identify the funny ones and entertaining classmates like one who goes by the name of Neil, who frequently wonders why everyone is laughing at almost anything he does. We sang a song, we ha a little dance, and that was it for the day or maybe not? But before I head to the following day let me rewind back to what happened during the Lunch.

At lunch time, I was accompanied by the three girls Din, Isang and Teza along with their respective friends to lure some food down our mouth, at the canteen I met fellow Student Blogger Patrik from the Bunsoi Magazine -who I believe has quiet an issue right now-. He was kind of mysteriously laughing about me bragging around with my WordPress shirt that day, emphasizing that there aren’t many bloggers out there in the campus who might come to recognize it, but, so what?

I went to the Gazeebo where I wasn’t alone but accompanied with other mates of mine to have a few moments checking out my Plurk account and other online chores I’m frequently taking care of. And then we went up for the sing and dance practices and activities of ours. The day seemed a bit long and endless, and our Ate whose name I forgot who was accompanied by the cousin of my fellow blogger Vincent who goes by the name Ralph had two games in mind which appeared to be funny at first but ended up into another boring streak when no one really outed of the mini game.

We had a small tour around the campus and it was like a suicide attempt for me roaming around the campus with my heavy baggage and half empty stomach but I survived it, somehow. And that was how the first day has ended.

Ateneo First Year Orientation Program Day 02 – June 03, 2009

The second day was the most entertaining one, everyone was still a bit shy on the former date but it was today when most likely everyone was up for the hype and there are truly a few things that I’ll hardly forget as one of the momentous first moments at Ateneo de Davao and before I’ll forget about the funniest part…

Tower Building out of Straw

Before we headed down stairs from the seventh floor -we were relocated to a new classroom because of Airconditioin Malfunction-, he had a little group/team activity and contest. He had to create a tower out of straw and base it on the criteria: Most stable, best design and tallest and guess what, we went all the way to grab only one of the factors and that was the height.

With the accompaniment of a fellow blogger, Ralph of wapolz.blogspot.com we went on with the tedious task and ended up with our tower being blown away by the first attempt to knock it down with a strong wind push coming from a card board. And there it goes, our tower is down the third to be tried and tested, the tallest yet worst when it comes to durability. The last one stood tall and proud and looked nice, but hey, that wasn’t really the name of the game, democracy has messed up a bit about the winner!

The most messy looking tower created by our joker in class and his groupmates who have not really contributed that much was tested by the leader of another tower group and it stood strong, whilst the said joker in class attempted to knock the other tower down and still stood strong. We had three towers up and it was a close draw wherein the favorite was clear to see -or maybe not-

The jury said that it was up to us now to pick a winner and to clap our hands for the one we liked the most. The first one on the role was the most messy one and our group and members of other groups showed their support by clapping for it while none has clapped for the latter two meaning that the messy one has succeeded and won, and I bet the judge was a bit amazed by the despicable result :p

We had a little cheering practice for our one and only cheer that we’d shout during the program that was going to be held at the court at 3PM today, the cheer was courtesy of Bea I don’t know her family name and it goes like “Tik a tik tik a tik tik a tik boo, better watch out ’cause z5 is coming through”. Well, it sounded a bit nasty during practice but it become worse at the actual moment we had to presented it to our fellow batch mates at the program proper.

I could talk about so many beautiful things that have happened to me these past 48 hours but time and my patience won’t allow me to. I was indeed happy and indeed feel like I finally have this sense of belongingness to my class and most especially to the Ateneo community. I would like to thank everyone from my classmates down to our Ate and Kuya who took care of us these 2 days of Orientation and simply everyone else who works behind the scene, the much speculated famous O.S.A head Sir Ricky and simply everyone who has warmly welcomed us to the elites, the Ateneo de Davao University.

FYI: Pictures can be seen at the bottom of this post, click them to view in original size, leave comments if you feel to do so, don’t be shy, I love comments even negative feedback as long as you don’t hit me back personally without having a blog of your own that I might laugh back at

AFYOP 2009 is a post from: Pinoy Teens Online

Though, I really have to say that my blogging tips section which consists of about 3 tips so far, is a neat series that I’ll soon be expanding on, especially having the third episode, talking about “How to increase your readership, and not annoy your readers” had made an impact to some of the bloggers around me.

Moving on, earlier today, I woke up full of energy and excitement, looking forward to the ACAT or ACET Ateneo College Entrance Test, or the Ateneo College Admission Test. Since I was scheduled to have the exam between 1pm-5pm, I had to arrive at the testing venue located at Ateneo de Davao thirty minutes ahead of the schedule, and since the distance between my house and the Ateneo College Campus is quite distant, I had to leave the house pretty early at around twelve sharp. I was too shy to take any pictures for this article of mine, so there are no imagery evidence that can prove to you that I was at Ateneo (which some of my friends on Plurk doubted).

So, how was the test?

The examination fell below my expectations, not in terms of its level of difficulty, but the number of items and the time allotment. During my search on the internet about the College Entrance Tests for the Ateneo Campuses, I found out that time pressure is really a big factor here, and pacing your time with the number of items will really be the key to the success of the examinations. I don’t know if my speedy reading skill pays evidence to my score sooner or later, but somehow I have to say that I have the kind of feeling that I passed the examinations with flying colors, but I won’t commence the last word about it yet, until the 27th of this month.

The test consisted of multiple parts, and recalling what I discovered on Multiply, I saw a portion that was talking about an essay part in the test, which was not the case for the Ateneo de Davao University College Entrance Examinaton, I’ve expected something like that to pop-out and prepared myself for it, yet I was behind with dust.

Mathematics was quite controllable at some point, and the English part of the examination really cut off my head with so many choices that appeared to be the correct one made it very hard for me to get through. Especially at first when I skipped a number and had to erase ten of the other answers to fill in the left out number correctly.

After all it was nice for me to be amongst the elites for a while. It has been a long time since I last visited a Jesuit Campus after I left the Ateneo High School during my Senior Years, and with a little bit of luck, and the guiding hands of Saint Ignatius, I might just be lucky enough to be back on track where I believe I belong to, which is the Ateneo.

ACET, Review and more is a post from: Pinoy Teens Online

I can’t deny the fact that I really hated Ateneo when I was in third year, but it was in the second, when I really started to like schooling, and High School to be specific. But let’s put those things aside and move to the little reunion that we had.

As usual, the casual victim of their Filipino Time tradition was non else but me. I was kept on the old for a couple of minutes waiting outside the National Bookstore at Gaisano Mall Davao, oh, did I forgot to mention that earlier, I walked all the way from the Mall down to Ateneo de Davao College only to know that they are already on their way to the Mall?

Well, I wasn’t that excited anymore to see their fat faces because of the long waiting time. As we finally came together, the first thought that came up was, “if where our other buddies in the barkada was”, and clueless respond that we got was they were just unable to get in touch with the others. Everything changed dramatically from the happy go lucky food trip anywhere to a casual little chit chat at the food court on top of the Mall. Talking about a couple of past memories, like the Chicken Nuggets cooking at my place, the Mr Black Issue and other significant events that touched our lives way back.

But something that I really have noticed on one of them was their being chubby, both have gained weight, or should I say fats? Especially the one that I’ve kept teasing, which is Alex.

After our talk we went downstairs, to go to our next venue which was the Internet Cafe of Rex located near the AdDU College Campus, as expected, both Alex and Rex went on food trip, eating kwek kwek and some other chuva that I can’t name. Haha. And finally, we arrived at the Cafe only to talk outside the building and then go part ways.

Alex accompanied me to NCCC Mall, in the hope that she could get some freebies from my mom for dinner, but well we ended up sharing my meal. But, I really do wonder why my mother was at total rage that time.

Alex then eventually agreed to accompany me home. And my plan was clean and perfect, she fell for the Mr Almighty Prank, and I haven’t told her about the truth yet.

I’m too tired of summing up my day. But this is pretty much everything that I have done today, nothing blogging related, but hey, here’s a little shout out for those who are wondering who’s the latest blogger being gossiped about.

There’s this one blogger who has been faking his subscrber count enormously lately. I don’t know if this person stands as a good example for a Student Blogger. (4th Paragraph)

Another thing that I want to remind you of, is that there will be a couple of new sub blogs that will be created soon, so watch out for them.

Meeting Old Friends from Ateneo is a post from: Pinoy Teens Online