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    Filipino Habit That You Hate

    in Culture and Living

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    Lahat nanggaling sa SELF-INTEREST or sarili lang ang iniisip

     

    Dahil doon:

     

    - hindi pwedeng may ibang maka-lamang

    + kaya sumisingit sa pila

    + o kaya, ayaw pumila at mag-babayad na lang ng pipila para sa kanya

     

    - walang pakialam sa hindi kilala

    + kaya tapon ang basura kahit saan huwag lang sa pag-aari niya

    + kayang mag-videoke ng napakalakas sa gitna ng gabi

     

    - walang disiplina

    + dahil hindi natatakot lumabag sa batas at mga simpleng rules

    + dahil wala namang magsusumbong

    + o kaya manghuhuli

    + at kung, mahuli man, kaya namang lusutin sa pamamagitan ng pag-papacute at pagtawag sa mga kaibigan

    Back To The 70's

    in Culture and Living

    Posted

    Those K-rations were really hits during the 70s.  They were great pasalubongs any time a friend or relative went to Clark and/or Subic.  While eating the stuff, you could pretend to be Sgt. Saunders or a character in "The Longest Day."  There were also dishes that you couldn't find in any supermarket in Metro at the time (eg. beef in apple sauce). I believe that those things have long since been replaced by "ready to eat" meals (I'm not quite sure if that's the term) which are lighter.  In other words, no more cans.

     

    By the way, while those K-rations looked cool, they didn't give the GIs an advantage in war.  Way back when, sometime after the Vietnam War, a military man told me that that was one of the differences between the GIs and the Vietcong and the NVA.  The GIs needed those rations.  The VC and the NVA lived off the land.  That made the VC and the NVA faster and more flexible.  During that war, our lovely PI was so important, in the sense that no GI was sent to Vietnam for combat duty without first going through survival training in Subic, with the Aetas as their instructors.

     

     

    Meron pang maliit na can opener and 6 sticks of cigarettes. Kaya nga pag open mo nito sa campings, confiscated kaagad ng scoutmaster ang mga yosi.

    Happiest Events Of Your School Days

    in Academics, Schools, Universities

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    My first day at UP Los Banos!!!

     

    I was a transferee from UP Diliman, and didn't know a soul in my new school. Being a bit homesick (yes - on my first day) I decided to take a walk around campus - this was past midnight, a day before school officially began.

     

    During my walk - I reached the central part of the Campus where the Main Hall is (a smallish version of CCP - designed by the same fellow)... at first, I wasn't sure what I was hearing... the sound was feint. I couldn't make it out... then slowly, as I approached... the sound became clear... it was a woman, "ahh... ahhh... ahhh... more! ahh...". I was in shock. Not knowing what to do... I walked away. I headed for the central part of the academic oval, near the Multipurpose Hall (sorry, can't remember the name).

     

    Underneath a big acacia tree, was a car in the parking lot. I wasn't sure what was happening - but it seemed to me that the car was moving back & forth...  As I approached, I could hear the now familiar sound of "ohh... ohhh... ahh...  ohhh...".

     

    The funny thing was that as I passed the car, the windows were down - and the couple inside did not seem to mind that they could be seen. So, I did the boring thing and walked on by.

     

    At the end of the academic oval, were bleachers. This was right in front of the UPLB DCMT building. As I walked by it, I could definitely make out the shape of two couples - banging each other on the bleachers. A pair were covered in blankets. The other pair, didn't care for propriety. Both couples were the silent types... no sound from anyone. Just a lot of pumping.

     

    A bit-culture shocked... and yet, naughtily thrilled ... I thought to myself "What a campus!" and "Ahh... GOOD TO BE HOME!!!"

     

    I decided that I had seen (and heard) enough for one night, and decided to go back to the place I was dormed - Santos Compound. The night was uneventful.

     

    Next morning... I attended my first class - HUMANITIES I. Topic for the day: birth control. I listened attentively - the teacher did not seem to inform me of anything that I didn't know already... except perhaps for one thing... she said "The number one problem in this campus is - dropouts due to pregnancy..."

     

    As she said that, I could not help but think about what I had seen & heard the previous night. I was thinking of asking a classmate beside me if the teacher's observations were really true & that UPLB's pregnancy rate was truly high... and as I looked to my classmate on the right  - I was surprised to find that she was rather gravid (grabe sa laki at malapit nang manganak). This urged me to look around class... only to see that two other classmates were likewise pregnant. Naturally, I dropped the question.

    While UPLB may strike many to be a boring place... far from civilazation & all that hubaloo... fact: the people there make it a very INTERESTING place to be. I certainly will never forget that first night, and that first day...

     

    Mali yatang campus napasukan ko!!!

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